# Hevria

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{{Short description|American Jewish arts and culture website}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Hevria
| logo = Hevrialogo.png
| logo_caption = Official Hevria logo
| type = [Essays](/source/Essays), [blogging](/source/blogging), [Judaism](/source/Judaism), [arts education](/source/arts_education_(disambiguation))
| founded = March 2014
| founder = [Elad Nehorai](/source/Elad_Nehorai)<br />[Matthue Roth](/source/Matthue_Roth)
| editor = Matthue Roth
| url = {{url|hevria.com}}
}}

'''Hevria''' is an American [Jewish](/source/Jews) arts and culture website and collective.

== History ==
Hevria was founded as a group blog in April 2014 by writers [Elad Nehorai](/source/Elad_Nehorai) and [Matthue Roth](/source/Matthue_Roth).<ref name="Hanau">{{cite web|author1=Shira Hanau|date=Feb 20, 2019|title=Welcome To The Alt-Farbrengen|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/welcome-to-the-alt-farbrengen/|website=The Jewish Week|accessdate=1 July 2019}}</ref> The site's name is a [portmanteau](/source/portmanteau) of the Hebrew words "''chevra''" (group or society) and "''briah''" (creation). Roth and Nehorai conceived of the project during an email conversation in 2012 with writer Chaya Kurtz, who had gotten attention for an ''[xoJane](/source/xoJane)'' article entitled "[https://www.xojane.com/issues/hasidic-women-sex What Women's Media Needs to Know About Chassidic Women] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128165102/http://www.xojane.com/issues/hasidic-women-sex |date=2017-01-28 }}"; the three theorized that a full website could give even more insight into [Hasidic Jews](/source/Hasidic_Judaism), and Nehorai subsequently recruited other blogging contacts to participate.<ref name="chronicle">{{cite web|author1=Marsha Shollar|date=June 21, 2016|title=Author's roundabout journey to Orthodoxy includes website for writers|url=https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/authors-roundabout-journey-to-orthodoxy-includes-website-for-writers/|publisher=[The Jewish Chronicle](/source/The_Jewish_Chronicle)|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref>

Beginning as a collaborative group blog for personal essays, poetry, and fiction writing, the website evolved into a creative collective hosting communal gatherings, arts workshops, weekend retreats, "creative [farbrengens](/source/Farbrengen)", and other events.<ref name="Hanau"/><ref name="chronicle"/><ref name="Sales">{{cite web|author1=Ben Sales|date=Mar 18, 2019|title=An Orthodox millennial unites Jewish artists, protests Trump and talks with AOC|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-orthodox-millennial-unites-jewish-artists-protests-trump-and-talks-with-aoc/|website=[The Times of Israel](/source/The_Times_of_Israel)|accessdate=1 July 2019}}</ref> Other ''Hevria'' projects have included "Hevria Sessions", a series of live studio performances by up-and-coming Jewish musicians such as [Levi Robin](/source/Levi_Robin) and [Bulletproof Stockings](/source/Bulletproof_Stockings),<ref name="chronicle" /> and ''Neshamas'', a sister site that publishes anonymous stories involving heavier topics such as [abuse](/source/abuse) and [mental illness](/source/Mental_disorder) in the religious Jewish community.<ref name="Sales" />

On January 2, 2020, Nehorai announced that he would be stepping down as editor of ''Hevria'', citing concerns that the attention he was receiving as an activist was distracting from the site's mission. He clarified that Roth would be taking over the site's leadership and that he would remain involved in a less visible capacity.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nehorai|first=Elad|date=January 2, 2020|title=Goodbye, Hevria. I Love You.|url=https://hevria.com/elad/goodbye-hevria-i-love-you/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-02-21|website=Hevria|language=en-US}}</ref> In January 2022, Nehorai posted an article to his newsletter giving more details about his decision to leave ''Hevria'', in particular citing the backlash to an article he had written defending [LGBT rights](/source/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States) in the Orthodox community as a culminating moment.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nehorai|first=Elad|date=2022-01-04|title=Why Running A Jewish Publication Led Me To Leave Orthodoxy|url=https://eladnehorai.substack.com/p/why-running-a-jewish-publication|access-date=2022-01-22|website=Elad Nehorai’s Newsletter}}</ref>

== Projects ==
In 2016, Nehorai and filmmaker Matthew Bowman began producing through ''Hevria'' a five-episode [documentary](/source/Documentary_film) [web series](/source/web_series) on the [Israeli](/source/Israel) community of [Bat Ayin](/source/Bat_Ayin), located in the [Gush Etzion](/source/Gush_Etzion) area.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Ari Soffer|date=July 19, 2016|title=Watch: Jewish embodiment and redemption in Bat Ayin|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/215193|website=[Arutz Sheva](/source/Arutz_Sheva)|accessdate=16 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Amy Spiro|date=July 25, 2016|title=A spotlight on those living off the land|url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/A-spotlight-on-those-living-off-the-land-462340|website=[The Jerusalem Post](/source/The_Jerusalem_Post)|accessdate=16 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="chronicle"/>

=== ''HevriaCast'' ===
From 2017 to 2019, Nehorai hosted ''HevriaCast'', the website's official [podcast](/source/podcast), wherein he interviewed artists, writers, and other creatives in the Jewish world. The podcast was recorded at [CLAL](/source/National_Jewish_Center_for_Learning_and_Leadership) Studios in New York City, and the standard intro and outro music was the song "Voice Lessons" by [Darshan](/source/Darshan_(band)). Many ''Hevria'' contributors were guests on the show, as were Hasidic artist [Yitzchok Moully](/source/Yitzchok_Moully), comedian [Mendy Pellin](/source/Mendy_Pellin), actress and filmmaker [Amy Guterson](/source/Amy_Guterson), social media personality [Adina Sash](/source/Adina_Sash), and musicians [Dalia Shusterman](/source/Dalia_Shusterman), [Isaiah Rothstein](/source/Isaiah_Rothstein), [Bram Presser](/source/Bram_Presser), [Jon Madof](/source/Jon_Madof), [Basya Schechter](/source/Basya_Schechter), and [Eprhyme](/source/Eprhyme), among others.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

Category:Blogs about Jews and Judaism
Category:Internet properties established in 2014
Category:2014 establishments in the United States
Category:American blogs

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