The J-Blogosphere Links

With apologies to my non-Jewish readers...

I find it interesting how J-bloggers, even those who blog without having started by reading J-blogs, sooner or later find themselves predominantly within the J-blog world. This was true for me and certainly many others out there, even if our posts are not particularly Jewish in nature. In fact, you'd probably find that less than a handful of my posts focus on Judaism, and while there is obviously a small portion of political posts involving Israel, these too lie within the minority.

But I digress. Within the J-blogosphere, there are many who are kind enough to put together something that I find to be harder than it looks (though it does get easier with practice). David of SoccerDad, the first J-blogger to find my blog, started Haveil Havalim - the Jewish/Israeli blogging carnival which happens just about every week. Batya of Me-Ander & Shiloh Musings recently began the Kosher Cooking Carnival, which is every few weeks. Chaim of Life-of-Rubin came up with the J-Blogger Interviews about a month ago. Dave of IsraellyCool started the Jewish/Israel Blogging Awards. All of these have done and will do a great service to Jewish blogs and the Jewish blogosphere, and to some extent will help spread the J-blogosphere to a greater extent. Bigger J-blogs with a nice reach outside the J-blogosphere do plenty as well: Think DovBear, Meryl Yourish, and the like.

Then there are those who help to guide others to some of the best stuff out there. For a while, I've been hosting roundups, and though I haven't been able to since Elianna was born, I hope to continue doing so in the near future - possibly in the next couple of days, as I'm almost caught up on what I wanted to read. Those roundups link to what I think are some of the best posts I came across or others pointed out to me that day. But the point of this post is to note that I'm not the only one to do this, and the others who do are also linking to excellent material.

SoccerDad has a series called, "If You Haven't Seen It, You Must."

Daled Amos periodically puts out his "Late Night Links."

Yitzchak at Judeopundit often has "Linkim".

Sephardi Lady of Orthonomics rounds up the economic posts that matter to the Jewish world.

All of these are excellent, and so are their blogs. Check them out! :)