Amichai Lau Lavie’s uncle, Yisrael Lau, was the Chief Rabbi of Israel. His cousin is the current Chief Rabbi David Lau. And here in New York, Rabbi Amichai founded a god-optional pop-up synagogue, that sometimes meets in a church."at my Bar Mitzvah I read the portion that says gays should be killed and I already knew this was going to be a problem.  Imagine what it did to me as a teenager.”Lau-Lavie is an activist concerned about the  judicial reforms  in Israel and suggests that de facto two nations have been created in Israel, repeating the model of Israel and Judah. To understand and prevent a civil war, he says, we need to better understand the Bible