Shedding Light on the Shadow of My Aunt Rose. Posthumously.
February 1, 2026
This family history teaches us about mid-20th-century American Jews and white privilege.
Clare Kinberg is the publisher and editor of the Washtenaw Jewish News, a monthly newspaper in southeast Michigan, and was the editor of the international literary/political biannual Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal from 1989 to 2011. For many years, she worked as a librarian and teacher and as director of religious schools in various Jewish denominations. Kinberg has been an organizer in the lesbian, feminist and anti-war movements for more than forty years. Her writing on Jewish culture, the Jewish Labor Bund, and Israel/Palestine has appeared in Tablet, Sh’ma, Bridges, Detroit Jewish News and many other publications.
Kinberg is available for remote or in-person talks about the book By the Waters of Paradise. ckinberg@gmail.com
This family history teaches us about mid-20th-century American Jews and white privilege.
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
