Belonging for Every Body: Fat Torah Workshop on the Abundant Divine Image (Online)

Belonging for Every Body: Fat Torah Workshops for Building Inclusive Spiritual Community

Learning to See the Holy in Every Body: How does weight stigma block our ability to form relationships with ourselves, with each other, with God? How does it create barriers to making our communities more fully welcoming? What does Torah have to say about all this? In this workshop we will deepen in our appreciation of just how rich and fat the Torah can be—nourishing our souls and helping us find paths to liberation.

Belonging for Every Body: Fat Torah Workshops for Building Inclusive Spiritual Community
About Rabbi Minna Bromberg, PhD: Founder and president of Fat Torah, Rabbi Minna Bromberg, PhD is passionate about bringing her three decades of experience in fat activism to writing, teaching and change-making at the nexus of Judaism and body liberation. Her forthcoming book is Belonging for Every Body: a Fat Torah guide to building inclusive spiritual community. Minna received her doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University, with a dissertation on identity formation in interfaith couples, and was ordained at Hebrew College in 2010. Since then she has led a 250-family Conservative congregation in Reading, PA, released a fifth album of original music, and run the Year-in-Israel program for Hebrew College rabbinical students. In addition to her work with Fat Torah, Minna isa v oice teacher who specializes in helping people use their voices in leading prayer. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Rabbi Dr. Alan Abrams, and their two children.

About Fat Torah: Fat Torah is here to smash the idolatry of weight stigma and lead us all from Narrowness to Freedom. We bring together the inner work of tikkun halev (healing the heart) with the social justice of tikkun olam (repairing the world). We provide education, awareness-building, and mentoring for confronting weight stigma and growing communities where every body belongs. We believe that Jewish tradition both calls us to this work and can be deployed for the liberation of all bodies.

Registration: This event will take place through a video conference call. Pre-registration is required. Please click the registration button above to pre-register. Once you have registered, your unique access link will be emailed to you. For classes that meet for multiple sessions, you only need to register once. You will be able to use the same Zoom link to access each session of the class. If you’re new to Zoom, watch a tutorial or read written instructions on how to join a Zoom video call.