Jewish american princess

Jewish-American princess jokes may be nothing new, but at the American Jewish Committee's Conference on Current Stereotypes of Jewish Women last week, concerned Jews said it was time to stop laughing. While the jokes may seem innocuous, according to Susan Weidman Schneider and other speakers, they represent a resurgence of sexist and anti-Semitic invective masking what Ms. Schneider called a ''scrim of misogyny. Schneider, editor of the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith. The conference in New York was held to address the prevalence of the Jewish-American princess, or JAP, stereotype on college campuses, television commercials and greeting cards, and to consider how it affects society's perspective on Jewish women and their image of themselves.

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Nothing was redeeming about a JAP. She did not have an ounce of compassion or empathy. The stereotype of the JAP wife was one of a woman wielding credit cards with impunity and withholding sex from her husband. A non-Jew asks a panel of Jews something that he or she wants to know about Judaism.