By the Waters of Paradise: An American Story of Racism and Rupture in a Jewish Family

Clare Kinberg is the publisher and editor of the Washtenaw Jewish News, a monthly newspaper in southeast Michigan and from 1989-2011 was editor of the international literary/political biannual Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal. 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 40 years. Her writing on Jewish culture, the Jewish Labor Bund, and Israel/Palestine has appeared in Tablet, Sh’ma, Bridges, and Detroit Jewish News, and many other publications.