If your site took place in the Finals voting but did not end up in the top three places you may download a JIB 2005 Finalist Badge below to display on your site and link to JIB 2005 main page, or the nominations page

If your site has been nominated, you may download a JIB 2005 Nominee Badge below to display on your site and link to JIB 2005 main page, or the nominations page

Welcome to 2005 Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards -
Final Results Voting ended February 2nd

Notice: The blog managers of the top three-placed blogs in each category are invited to email us at doreen@jpost.com to apply for a custom-made awards Badge.

The Jerusalem Post has joined Israellycool.com in hosting the second annual JIB awards, with the aim of bringing this exciting event to a greater audience while maintaining the blog community's grass-roots spirit.

Nominations were posted the Israellycool.com Web site for 17 different categories closed last month.

The voting took place on JPost.com in two stages. The preliminary round of voting ended midnight January 19th EST in 12 categories. The top six* vote-getters advanced to the final round of voting which started on January 24th, with the final awards going to the top three placers in each of the 17 categories. The final award winners will be announced on both sites, and will be honored with fame and glory as well as JIB award banners (designed by Zahava Bogner, Ventures Consulting Group, Inc.) to post on their blogsites.

You can view all the nominees and relevant voting groups by clicking here.

You may vote once every three days in any single poll, and we suggest you read the competition rules before voting.

Ballot Stuffing: The Judges shall be regularly checking poll records and IP addresses, and in cases of multiple voting suspicious votes will be deleted. Results are provisional until formally declared. In the final round of voting we shall be blocking certain IP addresses which we have identified as engaging in irregular voting.

Please support the awards by voting in all categories and spread the word to your friends and family.

Thank you for supporting the 2005 JIB Awards on The Jerusalem Post and Israellycool.com. Best of luck to all bloggers.

* Due to exact numerical ties, 7 nominees advanced to Round 2 from Best Series A, Best Post A and Best Personal B.

The participating sites have been freely nominated and voted for by surfers worldwide. Inclusion and final ranking does not reflect any support or endorsement of the content or views expressed on such independent sites by The Jerusalem Post or Israellycool.com. You may respond to such content by sending your comments to the sites or emailing the relevant bloggers.