Brad Goverman, at The Blogs

Jun 6, 2026, 4:36 PM

The tagline of The Jew News Review is l’dor v’dor. From generation to generation. When I launched this publication nearly five years ago, I chose those words because they captured something essential about Jewish life: the responsibility each generation bears to...

May 29, 2026, 6:30 PM

Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times, and the Changing Role of Journalists

In the spring of 1978, I found myself in the middle of a newsroom occupation. I was a reporter at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian at UMass Amherst, covering student government and local politics. A sit-in led by the paper’s women’s...

May 22, 2026, 5:28 PM

From Fringe to Mainstream: How the Unacceptable Becomes Ordinary

This week, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a grotesque video mocking detained aid flotilla activists in a performance seemingly designed less for governance than for social media applause from his political base. Quite apart from one’s views of...

May 12, 2026, 4:10 PM

F#ck the New York Times. And Yet.

Last night I read Nicholas Kristof’s latest opinion piece on alleged abuse of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli detention facilities. And then I read Haviv Rettig Gur’s response. Both left me angry. But for very different reasons. Before going further, a...

May 8, 2026, 6:12 PM

Resist the Drift

One of the more interesting stories I read this week wasn’t about politics or AI or the Middle East or the latest social media outrage cycle. It was about young people going to church. According to a recent Wall Street Journal...

May 1, 2026, 8:11 PM

The Islamist Elephant in the Room

Islam, liberal democracy, and the challenge of reform The other day I was thinking about the armed security guard at my grandchildren’s Jewish day school. He stands there every morning, part of the routine now. Something that feels both normal...

Apr 29, 2026, 5:49 AM

The Feed Is Winning: Part II

In Part I, I stepped into the feed. I saw how quickly a narrative forms. How repetition replaces verification. How certainty arrives long before understanding. But the deeper shift isn’t just what people are seeing. It’s who they’re becoming. Because when...

Apr 24, 2026, 6:28 PM

The Feed Is Winning: Part I

Over the past week, I stepped outside my usual media habits and into a different information ecosystem, one that a growing share of younger Americans, especially young men, experience every day. What I found wasn’t just a different set of...

Apr 22, 2026, 6:59 PM

The Price of Powerlessness. The Price of Power.

From Holocaust Remembrance Day through Memorial Day to Independence Day, Israel compresses Jewish history into eight days, and reminds the world what it still refuses to understand. A tip of the kippah this week to Rachel Goldberg-Polin. In a week...

Apr 17, 2026, 1:35 AM

Being Jewish Today: The Parts We Keep, The Parts We Lose

I don’t typically write about antisemitism. It’s been around long enough to feel almost procedural. Before October 7, the Jew News Review would cover it with a few bullet points in the weekly news roundup. That usually did the...

About Me

Brad Goverman is the editor/creator of the weekly Substack The Jew News Review, which provides a summary of news relevant to the broader Jewish community along with his sometimes smarmy commentary. He is also a Zayde for 4 beautiful grandchildren and one grand dog and belongs to Temple Sinai in Sharon.