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Fat Torah organization aims to end weight stigmas and fatphobia by 'connecting with sacred text, tradition, and spirituality that fosters body liberation for people of all sizes'
By Annette Hinkle Let’s be honest. It’s not always easy to find germane insight in ancient writings, especially if you’re a lay scholar. While exploring historic biblical texts may not appear on the surface to offer any relevance to our complicated 2
(RNS) — A small but growing group of religious fat liberationists opposes fat phobia in all its forms.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Rabbi Minna Brombergâs work addressing weight stigma in Jewish communal spaces took her to a lot of synagogues. She was often bewildered when organizers provided her a chair that was too small. Getting people to acknowledge her body and their discomfort with it is one reason she founded Fat Torah a year ago. âBecause people are so uncomfortable with fat bodies, they donât see my needs â but it should be obvious,â she said. âThey can see my body but donât give me the right chair. Itâs literally a consciousness-raising need. ...
Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice May 14, 2021 (JTA) — Do you want to know one small but powerful way we could make Jewish life more inclusive? Stop telling fat people about your diet and asking if they’d like to join you. Last year I launched Fat Torah, with the aim of confronting weight stigma in Jewish communal life and deploying Jewish tradition in ways that are liberatory for all bodies. At the time, I assumed that I would be providing advice to individuals who were eager for an opportunity to “Ask the Fat Rabbi.” And you, my dear Jews (mostly Jewish w...