Monday, May 21, 2007

Third Annual Jewish and Israeli Blog Award winners announced

It's been a big week for awards announcements, apparently. Despite concerns raised about right-wing bias and hacking attacks on its website, the winners in all categories for the JIB (Jewish and Israeli Blog) Awards have been posted.

The big winner is Yaakov Kirschen's Dry Bones blog, in which he presents a daily cartoon accompanied by his commentary on it - a methodology for which blogs are particularly suited.

Kudos also to our friends at JSpot, who picked up the award for best group blog, The Jew and the Carrot, who snagged the best new blog award (with an incredible 592 votes, nearly three times as many votes as any other blog received in ANY category), and Mah Rabu, who picked up a bronze for his Hilchot Pluralism series.

Other big winners include treppenwitz's musings on daily life in Israel (and whatever else comes to mind), Gil Student's ortho-haredi halachic commentary on Hirhurim, and the spiritual reflections of Lazer Brody at Lazer Beams - all of which are award winners from previous years.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the only reason kirschen won is not because anyone reads his blog, but because he sends out tens of thousands of emails to anyone who's ever emailed him ever to vote for him.

Yaakov Kirschen said...

Yikes!
Does Mobius really think I sent out "tens of thousands of emails"?
My email is at yahoo and unfortunately they've got a policy of not allowing bulk mailings.
:-)
yaakov kirschen
Dry Bones
Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973