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Trembling Before G-d (2001)
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The Hidden Lives of Gay and Lesbian Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.
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 for Judaism and the Divine with the drastic biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality.
As the film unfolds, we meet a range of individuals - some hidden, some out - from the world's first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, to closeted, married Hasidic gays and lesbians. Many have been tragically rejected and their pain is raw, yet with irony, humor, and resilience, they love, care, struggle, and debate with a tradition that is thousands of years old.
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 spirituality and tradition in the world.
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