This thread is so freaking weird.

Indian-americans (higher class ones) do this as well IMO. I love dating jewish girls but I always feel so much pressure in dating them - you have to be on your 'a-game' at all times it felt.

Anonymous wrote:The girls who looked me up and down in jr. high school were all non-Jews. It must be something that the Jewish women picked up from their harassing Christian peers.

Yes, it can't possibly be that OP is ignorant. It must be the result of Christians persecuting Jews.

Funny that I found this post but boy is this ever true. What's with that? I noticed first in college then as an upward and mobile young mother/wife with a successful husband, noticing it even more. It is not an attractive quality.

Anonymous wrote:Jew here and I don't do it. I think it's a wealth/confidence thing and not a "Jewish" thing. We don't teach our daughters to be judgmental.

Maybe you should. How will they pick a good husband if you don't?

Anonymous wrote:This is a Christian woman thing. All the Christian girls in my junior high school i Rockville did this to me, a Jewish girl. This is a CHRISTIAN thing, NOT a Jewish thing.

Funny. Aren't you trying to prove you are not judgmental ... by being judgmental?

This is a Christian woman thing. All the Christian girls in my junior high school i Rockville did this to me, a Jewish girl. This is a CHRISTIAN thing, NOT a Jewish thing.

Anonymous wrote:Jew here. I don't think you are noticing something specific to Jewish women, but something that is common with women raised in upper middle class status conscious areas, which happens to be where many Jews are from.

I agree!

Anonymous wrote:By the way, this isn't a religion question. There's no verse in the Torah that tells us "Thou Shalt Look Upon the Garments Of the Gentile With an Up and Downward Eye Motion."

Maybe it's an Israeli thing?

I have never experienced this, and am still not sure I even get what people are talking about. I'm a Jew from the South!

This looking at people head to toe upon meeting is called the NY Once-over. It is not a Jewish thing - it is a tri-state area thing. As is talking with one's hands a tri-state area thing and not an Italian thing. Signed, a NJ Jew

Jew here and I don't do it. I think it's a wealth/confidence thing and not a "Jewish" thing. We don't teach our daughters to be judgmental.

This, IS a Jewish thing mor than a "woman thing" in my experience, that said two of my closest friends are Jews but they do it and admit it. No big deal but interesting observation.

It is rude NO MATTER who does it! Know and recognize other peoples personal space.