{"id":237,"date":"2010-09-27T19:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/09\/kvellercom-is-up-and-running-and-even-though-they-didnt-ask-me-to-write-anything-you-should-still-go.html"},"modified":"2010-09-27T19:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:15:27","slug":"kvellercom-is-up-and-running-and-even-though-they-didnt-ask-me-to-write-anything-you-should-still-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/09\/kvellercom-is-up-and-running-and-even-though-they-didnt-ask-me-to-write-anything-you-should-still-go.html","title":{"rendered":"Kveller.com is up and running and even though they didn&#8217;t ask me to write anything you should still go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/kveller.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kveller.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/86\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/09\/kveller-thumb-150x59-18139.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"59\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>OK, I admit I&#8217;m no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/blog\/parenting\/blossom's-all-grown-up-mayim-bialik-blogs-for-kveller\/\">Mayim Bialik<\/a>. I&#8217;m no Anita Diamant. I&#8217;m not even a Marjorie Ingall. (Hi, Marjorie!) I am, in fact, an unknown blogger who gets a measly five thousand hits a month on my Jewish parenting blog on a website owned by fundamentalist Christians. So when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\">kveller<\/a> launched last week, with serious financial backing from UJA-Federation, I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that they didn&#8217;t ask me to write, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">didn&#8217;t mention my blog *<\/span>, and didn&#8217;t ask me to post a link to their site on Homeshuling. Either they have never heard of me, or I&#8217;m not cool enough for them. (And they&#8217;re right. I&#8217;m really not cool. At all.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But you &#8211; you are totally cool enough! You should definitely go to kveller.com right away, because there&#8217;s a lot of great stuff on this new website devoted to Jewish parenting. (Pardon me, &#8220;A Jewish Twist on Parenting.&#8221; That&#8217;s much cooler.) I&#8217;ve browsed the site, and except for a throwaway piece on Jewish bathtime and an article on nursery decor that was a little too <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentdish.com\/2009\/10\/05\/conde-nast-bids-farewell-to-cookie-magazine\/\">Cookie<\/a> for my taste, most of what I&#8217;ve read has been well written, informative and interesting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I remember the days when about the only place to read about Jewish parenting on line was on Babycenter&#8217;s Jewish Families board. I think 97% of the posters were looking for permission to have a baby shower, and 2.9% were looking for permission not to fast on Yom Kippur. I&#8217;m sure all the Jewish parenting bloggers out there who aren&#8217;t part of kveller agree with me that more is better, period.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So check it out, and let me know what you think. I promise I won&#8217;t be offended if you like it better.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*thanks to Jennifer from Mamaland for pointing out that Homeshuling is actually listed in the blogroll. I&#8217;ll try to kvetch less and kvell more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I admit I&#8217;m no Mayim Bialik. I&#8217;m no Anita Diamant. I&#8217;m not even a Marjorie Ingall. (Hi, Marjorie!) I am, in fact, an unknown blogger who gets a measly five thousand hits a month on my Jewish parenting blog on a website owned by fundamentalist Christians. 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