Jewishpress.com poll results: "Favorite Websites List" (FR "Honorable Mention!")

http://www.jewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=2885 ^ | 9/24/03 | Jason Maoz

[adam_az]

Favorite Websites List Posted 9/24/2003 By Jason Maoz, Senior Editor EditorThe votes have been received and tabulated, and the winner in the Monitor’s first-ever readers’ Favorite Websites poll is ... Jewish World Review, the daily webzine that, hard to believe, is the fruit of one man’s labor.

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky started Jewish World Review in 1997 on a shoestring budget and a lot of ambition; six years later he’s still got the shoestring budget, though you couldn’t tell from looking at his site, with its comprehensive roster of nationally known columnists and feature writers.

Honest Reporting came in a close second, with the Drudge Report, everybody’s obligatory stop while web surfing, coming in just a handful of votes behind in third place.

The top 20 vote-getters:

1) Jewish World Review (www.jewishworldreview.com)

2) HonestReporting (www.honestreporting.com)

3) Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com)

4) IsraelInsider.com (www.israelinsider.com)

5) Front Page Magazine (www.frontpagemag.com)

6) Arutz Sheva (www.israelnationalnews.com)

7) MEMRI (www.memri.org)

8) Aish (www.aish.com)

9) National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com)

10) Best of the Web Today (www.opinionjournal.com)

11) Ha’aretz (www.haaretzdaily.com)

12) Palestinian Media Watch (www.pmw.org.il)

13) World Net Daily (www.worldnetdaily.com)

14) The Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com)

15) Imra (www.imra.org.il)

16) Media Research Center (www.mediaresearchcenter.org)

17) Israpundit (www.israpundit.com)

18) New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

19) Andrew Sullivan (www.andrewsullivan.com)

20) Little Green Footballs (www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog)

Honorable Mention:

Free Republic (www.freerepublic.com)

Lucianne.com (www.lucianne.com)

Jewsweek (www.jewsweek.com)

Town Hall (www.townhall.com)

Power Line (www.powerline.com)

The Monitor finds it difficult to argue with the readers’ picks. There are, however, a bunch of websites that in the Monitor’s view merit constant attention but that didn’t crack the top 20 or the honorable mentions in terms of votes received.

They are:

Democracy For The Middle East (www.broadscapeventures.com/weblog/dfme)

Real Clear Politics (www.realclearpolitics.com)

Times Watch (www.timeswatch.org)

Atlantic Blog (www.atlanticblog.com)

Blissful Knowledge (www.blissfulknowledge. com)

The Weigh In (www.jsoda.blogfodder.net)

Right Wing News (www.rightwingnews.com)

Spinsanity (www.spinsanity.org)

Baseball Musings (www.baseballmusings.com)

The Monitor thanks all who participated in the poll.

Jason Maoz can be reached at jmaoz@jewishpress.com

[adam_az]

...I see this as more evidence that the WoT has brought more of my fellow Jews into the conservative fold, that it has woken us up from mistaking the Jewish mitzvah (ritual good deed) of pursuing "social justice" with pursuing "socialism!"

[truthandlife]

BUMP FOR FR AND ISRAEL

[Sam Cree]

Hopefully you are right. However, I kind of think that "social justice" and socialism are pretty much the same thing.

Cool that we got a mention.

[lonevoice]

Great! Here's hoping FR moves on up to a place on the list. Very encouraging.

[Mark]

There are major mistakes here. No Huffington, no Bab Streisand, no Hillary sites listed!!!

[adam_az]

I disagree, the Torah doesn't mention setting up a coercive powerful central government for forced theft and wealth redistribution. Also, one of the 10 commandements says "Thou shalt not steal," that also applies to governments.

[Ready4Freddy]

"...no Bab Streisand..."

Like buttah

[Ciexyz]

Thanks for those links! I'll have to check out "jewsweek.com." And I'm surprised that the Israeli sites like "Jerusalem Post" were so far down the list.

[Sam Cree]

I didn't mean to imply support for socialism by that, I meant to disparage "social justice."

[adam_az]

this is up your alley

[Ladysmith]

heh heh, no DU either...

[pointsal]

kosher ping

[onedoug]

Justice. Liberty in tension with equality.

[gatorgriz]

I read JWR each and every morning, after I've read FR, and WND... So congrats and all that jive for the top spot JWR! My hats off to you! A great site! And I'm sure next year FR will explode into the top tier!!!

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[oldtimer]

I bookmarked two of them, and all I can say is that I never thought that I, as a Christian, would end up in a foxhole with a Jew.

But would bet the farm, it is going to end up that way.

[TopQuark]

Well said! Note that when the prayers speak of taking care of "the widow and orphan in your midts," they always use singular. Nowhere do our prayers teach us to think in terms of groups. That is seemingly small point is a perversion that leads people from Tikkun Olam to socialism.

I hope you are right, and we'll see more of our fellow Jews voting Republican.

L'Shana Tovah. Have a good year.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I am deeply saddened and offended by #18 and believe FR should replace that trashy site mentioned.

[VRW Conspirator]

Ah, "social justice" .

Social Justice is more of a tactic than a noble aspiration. When a leftists cries for social justice, he implies that there is a higher level of justice to attain. Of course, he gets to legislate and interpret the laws of social justice. As well, he gets to decide what the remedy or punishment for violation of the social justice laws are…that he made up…in his mind. Since the leftist made them up, you and I are automatically excluded from any part of the process. This privilege is reserved for the "annointed". Social Justice is a bludgeon.

[yonif]

Good listing. Adam_az thanks for the ping.