Ezzie's JIB Picks III (Best Posts)

Here are I & II.

The main posts voting page is here.

Before I even begin, let me point to one group I've dubbed The Crying Zone. Best Overall Group F has a number of amazing posts that will have you crying your eyes out. It is posts like these that are at the heart of the J-blogosphere.

I'm also flattered and happy to announce that four posts from this blog were nominated - three of them by Pobody's Nerfect and one by me. In Best Overall Group C, Pobody has two nominations: Pobody Ever Needs to be Nerfect and Sensitivities... or the Lack Thereof. Personally, I prefer the latter, but it seems others so far prefer the former. In Best Jewish Religious Group B, my own A Hitch & A Prayer was nominated, but I think Pobody's Metamorphosis of a Teenage Punk is far better. Also, the How I Met Serach series [in the sidebar] was nominated in Best Series Group B.

And now, on to the picks:

• Overall
• Group A - Treppenwitz's A Difficult Lesson over BeyondBT's Financial Realities in the Frum World.
  
• Group B - Jack's Israel Meme which reminisces over his time there.
  
• Group C - Pobody's Nerfect
• Group D - Chana's Off the Derech over Ben Avuyah's Memoirs of a Yeshiva Misfit IV and Wolf's What Judaism is About. Jacob da Jew's Our Children's Education: A Robin Hood Affair was excellent, too.
  
• Group E - Irina's Preamble to the Rest of my Life, particularly the second half.
  
• Group F - I finally went with DAG's I Still Love You More than Life Itself. Again, this is easily the best group overall.
  
• Jewish Religious
• Group A - R' Gil's You Might be Modern Orthodox if... over DovBear's 10 things every Jew should know.
• Group B - Pobody's Nerfect
• Group C - Off the Derech again.
• Group D - Scraps' Proud Member of the Tribe.
  
• Torah
• Group A - DovBear's Minhag Shtus? is funny and pointed at the same time.
• Group B - Bari's The 9/11 Scenario in Halacha
  
• News
• Group A - TownCrier's Veteran's Day 2006
• Group B - ADDeRabbi's The RCA Conversion Scandal
  
• Humor
• Group A - FrumSatire's I Went on my first Singles' Weekend and it was hilarious!
• Group B - Shifra's (at Jameel's) barely beat her own Mars & Venus on an Erev ShabbosChol HaMoed at Six Flags Part II (with Hot Chanie) and Jameel's Elvis the Drug Dealer.
• Group C - Yehuda's Speed Dating at Haveil Havalim.
  
• Right-Wing
• Group A - Treppenwitz' It's Islam, Stupid over SoccerDad's Cohen's Mistake.
• Group B - Yehuda's Pallywood.
  
• Left-Wing
• Group A - Veteran's Day 2006.
• Group B - Ben Avuyah's Memoirs of a Yeshiva Misfit Part III.
  
• Live Event Coverage
• Group A - IsraellyCool's Live-Blogging the War over Canonist's Orthomom Hearing.
• Group B - Chana's fascinating History, Truth, & Religious Commitment with R' Jacob J. Schachter .
  
• Series
• Group A - Seraphic Secret's How I Married Karen, which is part of what spurred me to write about...
• Group B - How I Met Serach.
• Group C - SoccerDad's series on the Poisoned Ivies.
  
• Jewish Music
• I actually blew this one, voting for the good post by DAG - MBD & Fried speak about copying: Stick to singing, guys - but meaning to vote for BeyondBT's The Seeds of Teshuva of a Nascent Rock Star, which has a great, great song.
  
• Picture or Video in a Post
• Temunot [by David Linn]'s Amona.
  

Check out the posts and the blogs of the people who wrote them, and of course, don't forget to vote! Enjoy!