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The award winning documentary by Sandi Simcha Dubowski

2001 Sundance Film Festival - Official Selection Winner of Ten Awards in 2001 Including: Berlin Film Festival - Teddy Award for Best Documentary Jerusalem Film Festival - Mayor’s Prize for the Jewish Experience OUTFEST, Los Angeles - Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Chicago Film Festival - Gold Plaque for Best Documentary Washington D.C. Jewish Film Festival - Special Mention Berlin Film Festival International Federation of Film Societies - Special Mention Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Audience Award Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Best Documentary Pink Apple Film Festival, Switzerland - Audience Award The New Festival, New York - Vito Russo Award

"A provocative subject (invested) with a compelling tenderness... with a twist that is shocking. Fine and Powerful! An unforgettable picture."
- Elvis Mitchell, NY Times

"Smart, uncommonly objective documentary. TREMBLING is primarily interested in an inquiry that genuinely resonates since September 11: How can extremely traditional cultures humanistically reconcile their ancient doctrines with the thorny questions of the modem world? DuBowski's film isn't so much angry muckraking as is wise investigation. An intelligent film."
- Darren D'Addario, Time Out NY

"3 and a half stars. A loving documentary that ably leavens its tears with the healing balm of humor: a consummately Jewish way to go. Stirring. Haunted. Eloquent. Devastating. A resonant, moving and often surprisingly funny swirl of testimonies."
- Jan Stuart, Newsday

Directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski ISRAEL/FRANCE/USA, 2001 84 Minutes IN ENGLISH, HEBREW AND YIDDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES NEW YORKER FILMS "Unstoppable force meets immovable object in Sandi Simcha DuBowski's TREMBLING BEFORE G-D, about the terrible conflict experienced by gay Orthodox Jews - who are told they can be one (gay) or the other (Orthodox), but not both... Several protagonists are children of esteemed rabbis or cantors, making their identity crisis all the more acute. The close-knit, supportive nature of formative family/social environs - not to mention deeply instilled religious faith - is almost impossible to leave behind. Yet the Torah's specific instructions (procreative wedlock is a moral obligation, homosexual acts are abhorrent - even punishable by death, in literal interps) create a division that tears from within." - Dennis Harvey, Variety With support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Films

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Links:

Trembling Before G-d Links:

• The Official TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Website
  • View the Trailer!
• TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Photo Gallery Slide Show
• New York Newsday feature article about TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
• The Hardship of Being Gay in Orthodox Judaism - New York Times review of TREMBLING BEFORE G-D, October 24, 2001
• Orthodoxy and Desire - review of TREMBLING BEFORE G-D on lgny.com (Lesbian& gay New York)
• Village Voice review of TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
• Orthodox Eyes on ‘G-d’ Truth and Reconciliation by Leslie Camhi in The Village Voice
• The Forward's 50 Jews who have been at the center of the year's events... read complete article
• TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Reviewed in The Advocate
• Andrew Bender's review of TREMBLING BEFORE G-D on Generationj.com (a site for 'Jewish Generation-X'ers')
• Information about TREMBLING BEFORE G-D on upcomingmovies.com
• Workingfilms.org (sponsor) TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Page
• IFC Review of TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
• Sundance Film Festival TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Page
• Information about the film's score
• An article about recent documentaries focusing on homosexuality, including TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
• Dennis Harvey Review of TREMBLING BEFORE G-D in Variety
• Information about TREMBLING BEFORE G-D from the Sydney Film Festival Website
• The Internet Movie database TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Page
• The All-Movie Guide TREMBLING BEFORE G-D Page

• PLANETOUT Website
• New York Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center - Home to over 300 groups servicing the Gay & Lesbian community of New York City.
• GLAAD Website
• Gender Issues
• Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Page
• QueerNet

• The Jewish Museum New York
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum

• Judaism and Jewish Resources. A great list of resources, organizations, and a wide variety of subjects from Hebrew to the Holocaust. A Must-Visit!
• Hillel - the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
• The Union of American Hebrew Congregations
• JCCs of North America
• Anti-Defamation League
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Makor
• Shoah Visual History Foundation
• 92nd Street Y
• Americans Jewish World Services
• Crown Heights Jewish Community Council
• Avodah: The Jewish Services Corps
• New York Board of Rabbis

Selections from Amazon.com:

Film Works, Vol. 9: Trembling Before G-D JOHN ZORN [SOUNDTRACK]

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences) by Amir Sumaka'i Fink, Jacob Press

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) by Gad Beck, Frank Heibert, Allison Brown (Translator)

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