Bringing Fat Liberation To Jewish Communal Life -- Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg

With the creation of Fat Torah, Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg (she/her) shows people how their religious & spiritual lives can be a liberatory space. Minna broke up with diet culture at 16, but it was when she became a rabbi that she began to write and speak about fat liberation within the Jewish community. She shares how the stories from the Torah and Bible can be read as liberationist, how belonging can be derailed by unconscious bias, and how joy is a spiritual obligation in the Jewish faith. Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg is passionate about bringing her three decades of experience in fat activism to writing and teaching and change-making at the nexus of Judaism and body liberation. Since becoming a rabbi, Minna has led a 250-family Conservative congregation in Reading, PA, released her fifth album of original music, made aliyah, and run the Year-in-Israel program for Hebrew College rabbinical students. When she’s not working on Fat Torah, she’s a voice teacher who specializes in helping people use their voices in leading prayer. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Rabbi Alan Abrams, and their two children. Her forthcoming book is “Every Body Beloved: a call for fat liberation in Jewish life.”Please connect with Minna on Fat Torah. This episode’s poem is by Ha Jin and is called “A Center.”Bonus content with Minna through Apple Podcast Subscriptions and on Patreon.Please connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share the love? Please rate this podcast and give it a review. Our thanks to AR Media and Emily MacInnis for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful