Trembling before G-D [videorecording] / Simcha Leib Productions and Turbulent Arts in association with Keshet Broadcasting, Ltd (Israel) ; in co-production with Pretty Pictures (Paris) and Cinephil, Ltd. (Tel Aviv) ; director/producer, Sandi Simcha Dubowski ; producer, Marc Smolowitz.
Disc 1. Feature (ca. 84 min.) -- Disc 2. Extras (ca. 171 min.) : Director's short film: Tomboychik (1993) / Yammika-Girls Productions ; camera/editor, Sandi DuBowski; featurette "Trembling on the road"; interview with director Sandi Simcha Dubowski; Behind the silhouettes; more with Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the first openly gay rabbi; more with the rabbis; Mark : the musical; A conversation with the editor/creative collaborator, Susan Korda; deleted scene, Sarah and her kids; Petach Lev, The Trembling Israeli Education Project; Shlomo on Donahue; What is the atonement ceremony for sexual sins?
Summary:
"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. 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"-- Container.
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