Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Take it from a fat female rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice

This is no laughing matter! Amen! 😄 (Caution: irony)

"... 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 women) have not disappointed. It has been my pleasure to connect with people in Jewish communities who are tired of diet culture interfering with our full enjoyment of traditional foods and appalled by the enshrinement of weight loss as a Jewish value. ..."

Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Here is one of the outspoken Rabbi Minna Bromberg web pages. In yiddish she is a Mensch!



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