I love this post over at DovBear’s blog, but it’s not written by DovBear. It’s written by one of Da Boys from my favorite new blog DaBoysof905.

It’s a very mature and intelligent post about dealing with the President’s proposed troop surge in Iraq. I must say it’s refreshing to hear ideas rather then the usual negativity, whining & obstructionism that is rampant on the left.

Instead of the “no’s, never’s and that won’t works”, if they only had more “but here’s what we CAN or SHOULD do …”, then maybe the Left would have a fighting chance at taking back the White House in ‘08. Despite some politicians best efforts at making sure the White House stays in the GOP’s hands.

Yo Yo Yo! (W/ Lenny Solomon!)

Today is the last day of January, and so closes the first JBlog Awareness Month. I personally want to thank everyone who jumped on board and added to it. I personally found at least 6 new blogs that I now check daily. I hope you found some new blogs too.

Here is my final official roundup, but remember, just because J.B.A.M is over, doesn’t mean we can’t continue to post links to new blogs and always try to promote J-Blogs.

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First up is a blog that I found through J.B.A.M. and really love. Frum Satire has the full list of “Ridiculous questions for shidduch background checks”

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Here is another new blog I found through this months J.B.A.M, and personally I happen to think it’s one of the best new blogs to come around in a while. It’s a group blog and it’s just fun to read. Check out this post which covers exactly who they are and tthey are all about.

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Orthomom has a very disturbing story about anti-semitic PSA’s on Indian trains.

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Jewish Blogmeister has the update on the new Ohad CD which you can now order at Sameach’s website. Still no sample clips though, other than this one.

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A Simple Jew has some very beautiful paintings up at his blog this morning.

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SoccerDad has a new edition of “If you Haven’t Read … Then You Must!”

There seems to be a lot going on right now musically.

• Julie has a great review of Blue Fringe’s newest release. (I know, I know, mine will come soon)
• MoChassid and Aryeh both have some excellent posts regarding Jewish music and what digital copying and piracy will mean to the medium. I’m gonna try to write up some of my own thoughts on this soon.
• Jewish Blogmeister has the latest on Miami alum Yitzy Spinner’s debut album. As well as info on his own project.
• JB also has a link to Shwekey’s newest album, which you can pre-order and hear samples from. You can also download all the sample tracks in one file right here.
• Sameach Music will be releasing a new podcast this week promising music from Ohad and the (all over the internet) Shloime Gertner.
• Yossi Green is working with Dovid Gabay on Gabay’s next album.

I’m looking forward to the Ohad album, I hope it’s good. I’m sure I’ll end up getting the Shwekey album, so I’ll do some sort of semi-review of both of those eventually.

Wow.

See more here.

I really must say that each video newscast gets better and better. It’s 30 minutes of entertaining news and shtick. My only critique would be to tone down the O’Reilly’isms. If you want to skip ahead past the Chabad and Crown Heights news skip to the 11 minute mark.

Oh and one more thing. This blog was mentioned on the newscast. For all you loyal readers who just want to see my plug, skip ahead to 22:40 in the show. He called me prestigious and articulate. (Ya hear that Ma! I’ve amounted to something!)

Thanks Mendy and keep up the great work.

Here, here and here.

I like to keep things fresh with the season. Since we finally had a semi real snow last night. I wanted to grab a picture before the sun melted it. This is the original picture. I took it this morning on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY.

You can see the old headers here.

“It was awful - there was smoke, pieces of flesh all over the place” - Benny Mazgini

This is such a horrible thing. It’s just a tragic reminder of how fragile things are in Eretz Yisroel. The murderers behind this are simply put, animals. There is no defense, I don’t care how sad, displaced, desperate, or whatever other word liberals like Jimmy Carter try to use to describe them are.

There is no defense for people who do this kind of horrible, horrible, heinous, evil crime. You just don’t walk into a bakery with people buying coffee and danishes and blow yourself up. Thats not how human beings are supposed to act.

This is so funny I couldnt stop laughing.

• The messiest and shlumpiest of men can be rest assured they will get a hot wife
• The women don’t have to wear those stupid turbans
• They also don’t have to shave their heads
• They don’t deny their pasts like many BT’s
• Sukkah mobiles can pimp out the worst of cars
• Lubavitchers have hobbies and interests other then banning things
• They don’t feel the need to ban something every week
• Can you pass the Mashka
• Chabad houses have good reading material
• Campus chabad houses have hot chicks and free food
• Making fun of meshichists provides one with hours of entertainment
• Turf wars between Aish and Chabad are rather interesting

I’m not going to repost the whole thing, so your just gonna have to clickity click on over to FrumSatire and read the whole awesome list.

My new pal Sholom mentioned to me that I must be racking my brains to find a way to top last weeks amazing Haveil Havalim theme. You know what? Nope, I’m not even gonna try. There is no way I could top that. But I do want to try to do something different, so this week the posts will all be done in alphabetical order, by the bloggers name. Think of it as the ABC’s of the J-Blog community. It’s also a great way to meet some of the bloggers by their actual names. Instead of just knowing them by their blogs.

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A Bisele Babka has some cute WindowsVista humor here.

A Mother in Israel writes a guide to choosing an elementary school in Israel.

A Simple Jew presents Conflicting Emotions posted at A Simple Jew.

Aaron of Bagel Blogger has started a new carnival, one for Jewish bloggers to send in thier photos. I for one think this is a fantastic idea and can’t wait to be a a part of it. Please submit your photos by clicking here.

Andy at Cozy Corner writes about Ownership as Tzedakah (Football fans, you’ll want to check this out.)

Avrohom Adler presents Daf Yomi - Taanis 17 - STORY REGARDING KOHANIM posted at Daf notes.

Avi presents Gaby’s Blog #3 posted at StandWithUs Blog. Avi presents FrontPage Mag: Biased is the Peacemaker posted at StandWithUs Blog.

Another Avi, this one of Tikkun Ger writes about an interesting dilemma and asks for your help. Seems he is missing 46 of our 613 mitzvot. What to do, what to do! He also writes about an interesting Chabad documentary on Kabalah.

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Batya has lots going, starting with a reminder that the 15th Kosher Cooking Carnival is coming up.
She also writes a post titled Watch his hands! posted at Shiloh Musings and another post called Screened over at me-ander.

Blog in Dm, the J-Blog community’s resident music sage, has a huge wealth of link dumps here, here and here.

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Carl at Israel Matzav explains how Fatah is no better to Israel then Hamas. He also has a great post titled “Admitting Mistakes is a Sign of Worthiness to Lead.”

Chaim of Life of Rubin (Hey, that’s me!!) Ok I’ll drop the 3rd person. I just wanted to highlight a couple things here. As some of you may or may not know I have been very active in the restructuring, or whatever you want to call it of the Jib Awards for this year. We are looking to hold them sometime in May, but this year it’s a Jblogger run event. You are all invited to be a part of this and contribute something, anything. E-mail me to join the google discussion group and be a part of one of the committees.

As for my posts I’d have submitted if Haveil Havalim was somewhere else this week. I wrote two great posts on Friday. One about the public clothing burning in Israel and another about MBD’s 5 Million Dollar lawsuit against Gal Paz music.

Classmate Wearing Yarmulka presents some video from his recent Ski Trip in Vale (and I’m not jealous at all!)

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DaBoysof905 blog, a new favorite blog of mine, has an excellent post regarding the Modern Orthodox Single crisis.

I just want to use the D here to thank DAVID of SoccerDad for creating Haveil Havalim, an amazing tool for meeting new bloggers and finding some really amazing posts coming out of the Jewish Blogosphere. Thanks for the opportunity to host this wonderful weekly tradition.

David of Treppenwitz is back home, he has a new post up appropriately titled. Home Sweet Home.

DovBear writes about the latest “scandal” over Matisyahu, if you can even call it that.

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Elisheva Blogs points us to a free subscription offer (and discount) for the wildly popular Heimish magazine, Mishpacha. She also has the latest in the series of Kosher Cooking Carnivals. Issue #14. (They are always looking for a good host too!)

Ezzie has a new post up in his series on Why Firefox Rocks. You don’t have to tell me!!! I’m it’s biggest fan.

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FrumwithQuestions has another post talking about the Conservative movement and the JTS survey that went out.

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Harry from The View From Here blog emails me an article from The Jerusalem Post on the future of Jewish Music. He also has the clip of a new Israeli TV Hero.

Haveil Havalim is always looking for new hosts. It’s a great way to introduce people to your blog. invite people to come over, poke around and maybe gain some new readers. You’ll also be helping a great cause, helping to promote Jewish blogs.

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Irina presents Full Contact, And What a Contact! posted at The IgNoble Experiment, a.k.a. Live Dangerously!

ItShinesForAll writes Petition: Call on Amazon to Reverse Surrender to the ‘Free Palestine’ Powerful ‘Jimmy Carter Lobby’

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The Heilicka Jack writes about “The Future of Israel/Judaism.”

Judeosphere writes about Neturei Karta’s Marxist Groupies.

Jameel has an excellent post up proclaiming that despite all the bad politicians, it’s still an amazing country.

Jewish Blogmeister send in a post titled GERMANY: Thumbs It’s Nose At Returning Stolen Art! and he also links us to this video from Sameach Music presenting Dovid Gabay preparing for HASC 20.

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Katrin, a contributor to the invaluable blog BeyondBT writes a beautiful post titled “Understanding Hashems Plans as Best We Can“, it’s a great real life example of Gam Zu LeTovah.

Krum as a Bagel writes about singing Im Eshkocheich at weddings.

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Mark at PsychoToddler writes about all the gigs he’s been doing.

Meryl writes on how to write an AP piece on Israel.

Mottel presents Faren tzum Rebbe’n posted at Letters of Thought.

Mrs. Balabusta has a wonderful post up, asking people to reach out and call an old friend.

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Orthomom writes about the 5Towns Mortgage scam, and why it should matter to us.

Ocean Guy ask a great question, “Why Do We Need a 2nd Palestinian State?”

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Pearl of Pearlies of Wisdom has an extremely emotional post about her Father. We of course wish her nothing but happy news and we wish her father good health.

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Rafi at the Life in Israel blog has some very good points he raises about disgraced Israeli President Katzav.

Rivka presents Three words posted at Ha’azina Tefilati.

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Sarah of Sarah’s Images has so many great photos and treats on her blog, I couldn’t pick just one. So go on over and spend some time. Check it out, and make sure to wish her a Happy Australian Day.

Sheyna Galyan asks Who’s Paranoid Now? posted at Books and Beliefs, adding, “Sometimes fiction spills over into life.”

Sholom of AnarchistRabbi feels that the Jblog Velt doesn’t pay enough attention to him. That might be true because his blog is laced with profanities, and he has some pretty extreme posts on his blog on a wide selection of topics, but you know what? Despite all that, what I find amazing is that he is still hanging out with us. That’s the power of the Jewish Blogging community, even the “extreme”, our self titled anarchist Jbloggers, still call themselves Jewish bloggers. So yes, you may be out there, and 90 percent of your blog might insult me on every possible level. But your part of the family, love it or hate it.

Solomon of Solomonia writes about being a minority in an Islamic State.

Steven of Canonist has a very interesting post about Orthodox Pork, (the political kind.)

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The Town Crier has posts on Hillary Clinton calling Hamas “A Resistance Movement” Not a Terrorist Group!!! as well as the latest between Matisyahu and his former managers Jdub.

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I know this may bother some, so I apologize to those offended. I really had to include this post from Un-Orthodox Jew, sadly, there is so much truth to what he writes in his post. It’s hard to even read.

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The Volokh Conspiracy writes about Jimmy Carters apology.

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Rabbi Yaacov Horowitz reflects on Blogs, Blogging and Bloggers.

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ZionistYoungster presents On a Few Comments on DKos posted at Our Children Are The Guarantors, saying, “Exchange from Daily Kos and my commentary on it, showing the hypocrisy of criticizing Zionism on post-colonial grounds.”

Shavuah Tov!

I just finished organizing tomorrow Haveil Havalim, but it’s not too late to send in your posts. Till Sunday morning at 10AM you can still email me your favorite post(s) of the week.