Toni L. Kamins

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Dec 5, 2021, 11:50 PM

There is no December dilemma

Confused Santa with menorah (iStock)

You're either a Jew or you're not, and if you are, you shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas or that other Christian holiday eight days later

Jun 24, 2021, 2:01 PM

I never thought I’d be afraid to be Jewish in France. But I am.

Members of the French community gather outside the France Embassy in Tel Aviv to ask justice for late Sarah Halimi who was murdered by her neighbor in her apartment in Paris in 2017, April 25, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

From an American in Paris: Till recently, the long history of antisemitism didn't faze me, but these days I’m not wearing my Star of David necklace

Jan 23, 2019, 12:40 AM

Call Jew hatred by its real name

I’ve never liked the term anti-Semitism; it’s a misnomer. It assumes the existence of something called Semitism. Its real name is Jew hatred and calling it anything else masks its true nature. Here’s why. Until the 19th century, European Jews were...

Nov 6, 2016, 2:34 PM

Not an ordinary presidential election

I'm sitting here in my hotel room in Tel Aviv packing to go home...back to New York. I would have stayed in Israel longer, but even though I could have and voted in Tuesday's election by absentee ballot, I wanted...

Jul 29, 2016, 6:48 AM

Dear Hillary Clinton: It’s about the Status Quo, Stupid

Hillary Clinton’s refusal, or inability, to recognize that the outcome of this election rests on voters’ negative perceptions and feelings about the status quo rather than on competence, experience, and temperament is going to be her undoing. It’s how...

Apr 27, 2014, 5:55 AM

Deny the Holocaust but remember the Shoah!

Jews shouldn't be using the word holocaust to describe the pre-meditated murder of nearly six million of us during World War II, and Yom HaShoah is the perfect time to talk about it. Here’s why. English-language calendars translate Yom HaShoah as...

Mar 12, 2014, 6:00 PM

Vienna waits for you?

Vienna’s very name evokes Strauss waltzes, ornate cafés, coffee with whipped cream, extravagant formal gardens, and of course the Third Man. If you’re a Jew it also conjures up crowds of ecstatic Austrians shrieking heil Hitler as Nazi troops...

Jan 21, 2014, 2:50 PM

Vatican must also release wartime baptism records

We still don't know what happened to the many Jewish children left for safekeeping in Catholic homes and institutions

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About Me

Toni Kamins is an American writer who lives in Paris, France. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the NY Daily News, City Limits, the Los Angeles Times, the Forward, the Jerusalem Post, and Haaretz. She is the author of the Complete Jewish Guide to France and the Complete Jewish Guide to Britain and Ireland. She is also the creator and publisher of the Medicare Reporter, which she launched in June 2021. https://themedicarereporter.substack.com/

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