I've been waiting for you cuz I didn't even know where to beginCichelle said:I am Jewish. And I am married to a Jewish man.
And some of the things written in this thread....
PME_LADY said:Now to answer your question, yes indeed I have in the past and we are still good friends today. I did not find him to be frugal with money as the stereotype about them goes, but I find that they do not like to waste money. They find absolutely nothing wrong with spending $300 to advance themselves educationally. But they would be hard pressed to spend $150 for say a pair of jeans. During our relationship, he showered me with gifts and paid for EVERYTHING. But if there was something I wanted and he could not see the economics of it, he would definitely try to talk me out of it.
I have always been amazed at the Jewish stereotype of stingyness and frugality when you look at all the countless donations they have made to science, arts, culture and social causes.
imstush said:Out of curiosity, he's jewish and an atheist? Is that even possible?
Really? I alwasy thought they are strictly into finding Jewish wives. I actually saw a Hasidic Jew with a black woman the other day, and I couldn't stop staring. They were extremely cute though they kept smiling and kissing each other, like two teenagers.
Yeah, a lot of people don't understand there is a religion and an ethnicity.HoneyDew said:Girl, I have a friend (not the Jewish guy I dated) who is a Jewish atheist. But his Jewishness is all in his heritage and not religion. But his parents were not atheist and tried to instill some sense of spirituality in him - something went wrong I guess. He is an atheist and his sister married and became a Christan.
klb120475 said:I'm sorry, I just don't understand the difference in a Jewish man vs dating any other man?
BAP28 said:They r every different but its hard to understand unless you are around jewish ppl in general..but the ladies touched on very interesting/valid characteristics aboUT some Jewish men not all...since each persons EXP IS DIF
Then where did the term JAP (Jewish American Princess) come from? I have a fair amount of Jewish friends, and I find that some are very interested in being with only Jewish people. Others don’t care. And I can’t think of too many of my Jewish friends that are frugal, especially not the girls. Those bat mitzvah’s looked like they belonged on MTV’s Sweet 16. Some of my friend’s parents are frugal (i.e. one friend that I grew up with—her dad is a multimillionaire. They have 2 vacation homes, he owns his own biotech company and his own parents were wealthy—kept his volvo station wagon for like 20 years. Only to replace it with another volvo station wagon). But I don’t hate, b/c I know black people and people of other races who are like this too!I'm from New Orleans, I never really knew
what Jewish was until High School and even
then I never met any Jewish people until
I got to Miami. He's very paranoid...
especially about money and I know this
is bad but I just learned from a friend
from New York that Jewish people in
general are very frugal and paranoid
about people taking stuff from them...
I sensed that before I even knew this
stereotype... I hate to generalize, but
is that what your Jewish friend was like?
I would not date or marry a Jewish man. They don't believe in a Heaven/Afterlife/Karma. One of my college roommates was Jewish and we debated it one day. I was raised in an interfaith family and I could be with someone Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or any other religion, except Judaism.