Fat Torah Workshops

Belonging for Every Body: Fat Torah Workshops for Building Inclusive Spiritual Community
with Rabbi Minna Bromberg, PhD

Fat Torah’s workshops use joyful, soulful approaches to healing our own hearts and building a just world. We also offer consultation for communities seeking to deepen their inclusivity, as well as multi-session classes and group-learning experiences tailored to the needs and desires of your community. Contact minna@fattorah.org to discuss possible dates and topics!

Each workshop begins by answering our most frequently asked questions:

  • What is Fat Torah and why does it use the word “fat?”

  • What is weight stigma and how does it impact people of different sizes?

  • How does anti-fat bias show up in Jewish communal life?

We then dive in to a Fat Torah topic of your choice—exploring how Jewish text and tradition can be deployed for the liberation of all bodies. We love tailoring programs to the needs of your community.

Here are some examples of past programs:   


The Abundant Divine Image: Learning to See the Holy in Every Body 

What does it mean to imagine that all bodies are created in the image of God? How might this imagining lead us to remove barriers to making our communities more fully welcoming? 

Fat Torah for Jewish Holidays

Our holidays and observances can cause stigmatizing harm or be sources of liberation, depending on how we approach them. Fat Torah is here to see where the problems lie and find new ways to make our traditions more inclusive. Here are some examples:   

Pesach: The path from Narrowness to Freedom; reliving the Exodus through body liberation.

Selihot and High Holy Days: Forgiving our internalized fatphobia; coming home to our truest selves. 

Sukkot: Making our sukkot more welcoming and learning about strength through diversity.

Chanukah: Celebrating the miracle of fat as a symbol of our people’s endurance.

What’s Jewish About Fat Activism?

In this session, we will learn more about the Jewish roots, as well as the Jewish future, of the body liberation movement. We will explore both the history and the current state of fat activism and body positivity, and look at how both Jews and Jewish values have been central to this work.

To balance the sustainability of Fat Torah with our desire to make programs accessible, we offer a sliding scale according to the size of your organization’s budget. Below are the rates for our 90-minute workshops. If these rates are out of reach for your organization, or if you’d like us to design a shorter, longer, or multi-session program, please be in touch so that we can discuss what might be possible.

  • Organizational budget under $250K: $360

  • Organizational budget between $250K-$750K: $720

  • Organizational budget between $750K-$1.5 million: $1,080

  • Organizational budget over $1.5 million: $1,440