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29 March 2004 |
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Trembling before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. As the film unfolds, we meet a range of complex individuals - some hidden, some out - from the world's first openly gay Orthodox rabbi to closeted, married Hasidic gays and lesbians to those abandoned by religious families to Orthodox lesbian high-school sweethearts.
Many have been tragically rejected and their pain is raw, yet with irony, humour, and resilience, they love, care, struggle, and debate with a thousand-year old tradition. Ultimately, they are forced to question how they can pursue truth and faith in their lives. Vividly shot with a courageous few over five years in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, London, Miami and San Francisco, Trembling Before G-d is an international project with global implications that strikes at the meaning of religious identity and tradition in a modern world. For the first time, this issue has become a live, public debate in Orthodox circles, and the film is both witness and catalyst to this historic moment. What emerges is a loving and fearless testament to faith and survival and the universal struggle to belong.
"A man who lies with a man as one lies with a woman, they have both done an abomination: they shall be put to death, their blood is on them." - Leviticus 10:13
"For women to rub against each other in the position of sexual intercourse is forbidden... It is fitting for the court to administer lashes for this transgression." - The Shulchan Aruch, the 16th century authoritative code of Jewish law. Even HaEzer 20:2
Special Features
- Scene Selections
- New Yorker Films Trailers
- Feature - "Trembling on the road" a look at the life-changing movement of the fi
- Interview with the Director Sandi Simcha Dubowski
- Conversation with Editor - creator collaborator, Susan Korda
- More with the Rabbis
- More with Rabbi Steve Greenberg - The first openly gay orthodox Rabbi
- Petach Lev: The Trembling Israeli education project
- Director's short film - TOMBOYCHIK
- Behind the Silhouettes
- What is the atonement ceremony for sexual sins?
- Theatrical Trailer
- MARK: the musical
