On August 20th, after a very cool lead-in project, Nefesh B'Nefesh will be hosting the first international J-Blogger Convention in Israel. In the middle there will be two panel discussions, and the panelists include some of the biggest and best Jewish blogs out there - R' Gil Student of Hirhurim, David Bogner of Treppenwitz, Jewlicious, Israel Matzav... there's even going to be a comedy performance by Heshy of Frum Satire.
On top of that, NbN is sending a few J-bloggers, including our good friend Jameel, to the United States to do something exciting right before the conference:
Nefesh b'Nefesh has offered to send me and other JBloggers to the US (and return back) on one of their aliya flights -- to accompany an oleh family and blog their experience before leaving, during the flight, and at the welcome-home reception at Ben-Gurion airport.They should arrive the day before the convention. (For those interested in seeing the welcome-home reception of a Nefesh B'Nefesh flight, my sister called earlier and said there should be one tonight at 12:40am EDT, including their best friends and neighbors who made aliyah today from Baltimore.)
Meanwhile, for anyone who is interested in attending the conference, you can register by clicking here; if you're interested in taking part via a live feed they'll be having, you can register there as well. I've already registered for the online feed, and if you won't be in Israel, I recommend doing the same.
Between the Shabbaton the Shabbos before and the Convention, it will certainly be quite a week in the J-Blogosphere...!
It should be quite an event.
ReplyDelete"Gee, JBlogger, what do you want to do tonight?"
ReplyDelete"The same thing we do every night, Other JBlogger - try to take over the world."
sounds great.
ReplyDeleteIt's very nice that an official Israeli organization is throwing a frum-only blogger convention.
ReplyDeleteSigh, DK. Once again, grow up.
ReplyDeleteI fail to see how Jewlicious is frum, anyway. Aren't you a part of it?
For your information, ck of Jewlicious, the gentleman who runs it, is Orthodox.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that! Very cool.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it's really annoying that I'm going to miss the Beyond BT/Serandez Shabbaton by two days AND miss this by two days.
ReplyDeleteScraps - You simply are cursed. So cursed you just spent 5 WEEKS there. Hmph.
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