Minna Bromberg, at The Blogs

Minna Bromberg

Nov 27, 2024, 8:58 PM

A group of women gather at a feminist co-working space and spend time talking, connecting and collaborating at a networking event. (Lindley Ashline/ Body Liberation Stock)

Last week, when I announced that applications were open for the first ever Fat Torah Teacher Training Institute (yes, FATTI!), here’s what landed like a wee turd in my inbox: “I am unsubscribing from this email. I find this new...

Jul 30, 2024, 2:08 PM

Book writing and butt wiping, or how I am coping with the war

“Why-y-y-y?!?” my preschooler shrieks from the farthest room of our apartment, “Imma! Why-y-y-y-y?!?” Like so many of us in Israel these days, my nervous system is set on “emergency” mode much of the time. Physically we have stayed relatively safe....

May 5, 2021, 10:09 AM

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About Me

Minna Bromberg is founder and president of Fat Torah. She 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 book, "Every Body Beloved: a Jewish embrace of fatness" is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband and their children.