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Expanding the Palace of Torah

JL;DR SUMMARY Exploring the convergence of Jewish faith and body image activism, Minna Bromberg's 'Every Body Beloved' challenges the Jewish community to recognize and dismantle antifat biases. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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MemoirSpiritualityRabbisBody ImageFat LiberationAntifat BiasMinna BrombergBacol Serlui

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"and is the founder of a Jerusalem-based organization called Fat Torah"
Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem, Israel
"Serlui, who is both a journalist and a distinguished poet, grew up in the 1990s in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe."
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