FILM SCREENINGS - Symposium on Judaism and Film

Film Screenings as part of the 2025-26 Frankel Institute's Symposium on Judaism and Film. Screenings will take place in Rackham Amphitheater from 6:30 - 9 PM on the following dates:


Monday, April 20 - Sabbath Queen (2024, dir. Sandi Simcha DuBowski, USA, 105 min) 

Tuesday, April 21 - My One and Only (2025, dir. David Tauber, Israel, 104 min.)


This symposium celebrates the forthcoming 38-chapter volume, The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Film, edited by Olga Gershenson. A screening is a session that follows a film that focuses on the issues discussed in the Handbook. Screenings will take place at night and will feature discussions with the contributors and other scholars in the relevant fields.




Sabbath Queen Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Available Seats 220
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Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) (Rackham Graduate School Ampitheater)
Janis Plotkin, Nathan Abrams, and Naftali Cohn

Screening of Sabbath Queen (2024, dir. Sandi Simcha DuBowski, USA, 105 min) as part of the Frankel Institute's Symposium on Judaism and Film. This feature documentary follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul, a pop-up experimental congregation. Sabbath Queen joins Amichai as he reinvents religion and ritual, challenges patriarchy and supremacy, champions interfaith love, and stands up for peace and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine.


A Screening is a session that follows a film that focuses on the issues discussed in the Handbook. Screenings will take place at night and will feature discussions with the contributors and other scholars in the relevant fields.


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