Screening: "Trembling Before G-d"

Screening of “Trembling Before G-d” (2001), a film that shatters basic assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism.

Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, this documentary 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. For more information visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278102/

Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies (Aquinnah Fund) and Middlebury College Hillel