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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2001 film by Sandi Simcha DuBowski Trembling
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Before G-d DVD cover Directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski Produced by Sandi
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Simcha DuBowski Marc Smolowitz Starring Shlomo Ashkinazy Rabbi Steven
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Greenberg Cinematography David W. Leitner Edited by Susan Korda Music by John
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Zorn Production company Cinephil Distributed by New Yorker Films Release date
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2001 Running time 84 minutes Countries Israel France United States Languages
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English Yiddish Hebrew Box office $788,896 Trembling Before G-d is a 2001
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American documentary film about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to
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reconcile their sexuality with their faith. It was directed by Sandi Simcha
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DuBowski , an American who wanted to compare Orthodox Jewish attitudes to
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homosexuality with his own upbringing as a gay Conservative Jew . The film
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received ten award nominations, winning seven, including Best Documentary
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awards at the 2001 Berlin and Chicago film festivals. However, some criticized
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the film as showing a one-sided view of Orthodox Judaism's response to
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homosexuality. These include South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein as
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well as Agudah spokesperson Avi Shafran . The film is mostly in English, but
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also has some subtitled Yiddish and Hebrew . The film follows the lives of
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several gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews and includes interviews with rabbis and
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psychotherapists about Orthodox attitudes towards homosexuality. During the
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film's six-year production, DuBowski met hundreds of homosexual Jews, but only
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a handful agreed to be filmed due to fear of being ostracized from their
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communities. [1] Many people who agreed to be interviewed are shown only in
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silhouette or with their faces pixelized . [2] The majority of the
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participants are American Jews, with one British and one Israeli Jew also
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featured. The film was successful at the box office , grossing over $788,896
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on eight screens by its close date. [3] Background [ edit ] Main article:
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Homosexuality and Judaism While a variety of views regarding homosexuality
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exist within the Orthodox Jewish community, Orthodox Judaism generally
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prohibits homosexual conduct. While there is disagreement about which acts
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come under core prohibitions, all of Orthodox Judaism puts certain core
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homosexual acts, including male-male anal sex , in the category of yehareg
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ve'al ya'avor , "die rather than transgress" – the small category of
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Biblically prohibited acts (including apostasy, murder, idolatry, adultery,
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and incest) which an Orthodox Jew is obligated under Jewish laws on self-
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sacrifice to die rather than commit. [4] Familiarity with sociological and
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biological studies, as well as personal contact with Jewish homosexuals, has
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brought some Orthodox leaders to a more sympathetic viewpoint, which views
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homosexuals as mentally ill rather than rebellious and advocates treatment
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rather than ostracism or jail. In the 1974 yearbook of the Encyclopedia
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Judaica , Rabbi Norman Lamm , a leader in Modern Orthodox Judaism , urged
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sympathy and treatment: "Judaism allows for no compromise in its abhorrence of
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sodomy, but encourages both compassion and efforts at rehabilitation." Lamm
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compared homosexuals to those who attempt suicide (also a sin in Jewish law),
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arguing that in both cases it would be irresponsible to shun or jail the
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sinner, but equally wrong for society to give "open or even tacit approval".
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[5] When Orthodox rabbi Steven Greenberg publicly announced that he was
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homosexual, Rabbi Moshe Tendler , a leading rabbi at the Modern Orthodox
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Yeshiva University where Greenberg was ordained as rabbi , stated "It is very
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sad that an individual who attended our yeshiva sunk to the depths of what we
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consider a depraved society," giving his opinion that Rabbi Greenberg's
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announcement is "the exact same as if he said, 'I'm an Orthodox Rabbi and I
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eat ham sandwiches on Yom Kippur .' What you are is a Reform Rabbi." [6]
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Synopsis [ edit ] Trembling Before G-d interviews and follows several gay and
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lesbian Orthodox Jews, many only seen in silhouette, and also interviews
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several rabbis and psychologists regarding their views on homosexuality in
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Orthodox Judaism. The film repeatedly returns to several characters: David is
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an observant Orthodox Jewish doctor from Los Angeles who has spent a decade
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trying to reconcile his homosexuality with Judaism. He has tried numerous
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forms of "treatment", from eating figs and praying to wearing a rubber band on
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his wrist to flick whenever he thinks of men , but to no avail. [2] During the
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course of the film, David decides to visit the Chabad rabbi to whom he first
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