Social activist and storyteller, writer and community leader
Social activist and storyteller, writer and teacher, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him) is the Co-Founding Spiritual Leader of the Lab/Shul community in NYC, the creator of the ritual theater company Storahtelling, Inc, and the 2026 Inaugural Recipient of Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah Fellowship.
Israeli born, he’s been living in New York since 1997 and travels often between both homes. In 2016 he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016, becoming the 39th generation of rabbis in his family — the first one to be openly queer.
Rabbi Amichai is the Co-Chair of the Executive Board of Rabbis for Human Rights, is a co-founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network, a founding faculty member of the Reboot Network, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Sulha Peace Project for Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers, and the Leadership Council of the New York Jewish Agenda.
