Rabbi Avi Shafran, the spokesperson for Agudath Israel of America, one of the largest Haredi organizations, criticized the film with an article titled "Dissembling Before G-d". In his response, he holds that gay people can be cured through therapy, and that the movie is meant to promote homosexuality: DuBowski maintains that there is no agenda to Trembling Before G-d "beyond alleviating an immense amount of pain that people are going through", and that Judaism is lovingly portrayed. Indeed, several audience members at screenings asked afterwards how they could convert. Accolades Legacy The DVD was released in 2003 and contains many extra features, such as extensive interviews with DuBowski and Rabbi Steven Greenberg. There is also a mini-documentary about reactions to the film around the world and what happened to the people who were featured in the documentary. The total running time for the special features is actually over 2 hours longer than the documentary itself. With a seed grant from Steven Spielberg, the creators of the film have set up the Trembling Before G-d Orthodox Education Project, to teach Orthodox educators and rabbis about homosexuality, as well as convening the first Orthodox Mental Health Conference on Homosexuality and training facilitators to show the film to community leaders. Over 2000 principals, educators and school counselors have attended screenings within Israel's religious school system. The film has now been seen by an estimated 8 million people worldwide. Following the success of Trembling before G-d, DuBowski produced a documentary about gay devout Muslims entitled A Jihad for Love. See also Homosexuality and Judaism Keep Not Silent (2002), a documentary about lesbian Orthodox Jewish women in Jerusalem Say Amen (2005), a documentary about a gay man coming out to his Orthodox family And Thou Shalt Love (2008), an Israeli short film that examines the difficulties of being both an Orthodox Jew and gay Paper Dolls References External links Trembling Before G-d at Working Films Rabbi Steve Greenberg's profile at CLAL 2001 films American documentary films Documentary films about LGBT and Judaism American LGBT-related films Gay-related films 2000s Hebrew-language films LGBT and Orthodox Judaism Yiddish-language films Films scored by John Zorn 2001 LGBT-related films Films about conversion therapy Films about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews Anti-Orthodox Judaism sentiment 2000s English-language films 2000s American films 2001 multilingual films American multilingual films