Educators

Celebrate Sukkot Using These Online Resources

 

Innovation and Incubation

Imagine you’re a software engineer. You have a great concept for engaging Jewish youth with digital media, building their Jewish identity.  Furthermore, you found a way to spend all your time doing what you’re good at; you don’t have to rely on funders to keep it going, nor spend up to a third of your time chasing the next fundraising dollar.

Give and Get Rosh Hashanah Resources for Your School

This year, Rosh Hashanah begins on Wednesday, September 28th at sundown.  

MediaMidrash Finds a Home with Behrman House

Equip Teachers for Success

Every minute matters in today’s classroom. You want to make the most of the limited time you have each week to draw your students into active discussions and creative activities that will help them grow to be literate, engaged Jews. Some teachers are naturals at this. Some wish for a little help. Behrman House’s new line of Lesson Plan Manuals can be just the help a teacher needs to lead dynamic classes that ignite student imaginations.

Back To School Ideas: Icebreakers For the First Day of School

It’s back to school time! As you unpack your shipments of Behrman House books and prepare your bulletin boards and classrooms, here are some resources that will help you transition students into the upcoming school year. One great icebreaker for getting classmates to interact is taking personality quizzes. Have students take this quiz about their greatest strengths and let classmates get to know each other. Students will discover how their outlook on life can connect to their Jewish identity.

Your Online Tour Guide Part 2

Our goal when we re-designed our website was to make articles, resources, and activities you normally use more accessible and to provide you with updates and useful news at a glance. I encourage you to explore our new site—it’s conveniently organized by audience: Educators, Students and Families. Click around the site, I’m sure you’ll find resources that are perfect for you.

How You Can Afford to Upgrade Technology in Your School

Jewish educators are frustrated when they can’t afford to buy new laptops, a projector, carts, and other computer hardware and software for the school. How can they close the digital gap between home and school when they have no money to do so? Here are three ways to boost your school’s budget so that you can upgrade your technology. 1.       Ask an angel.

Babaganewz Celebrates Ten Years!

Can you believe it’s been ten years since the birth of Babaganewz? With a focus on Jewish values, this full-color monthly magazine identified values conflicts in current front-page news, profiled Jewish kids  with compelling causes or unusual hobbies, and interviewed celebrities from Hollywood and Capitol Hill talking about Jewish values in their own lives.  Created by JFL Media with generous funding by the

Five Reasons Schools are Switching to Kol Yisrael and Alef Bet Quest

We asked educators why they are choosing and using Alef Bet Quest and Kol Yisrael: The Prayers of Our People and how are they integrating these ground-breaking materials into their Hebrew programs. Here are some of the reasons they described. "FUN AND FRIENDLY MATERIALS, BOOK+DIGITAL FORMAT"           

Digital Hebrew for Today, Plus Big Plans for Tomorrow

As you prepare for the new school year, remember that our blended-learning, book-and-digital, Hebrew series, Kol Yisrael: Prayers of Our People, is now complete. With the recent release of Kol Yisrael 3  you can now teach four years of Hebrew—Primer through Prayer Literacy—with the same fully-integrated,  digital-plus-book approach that has been tried and tested in hundreds of schools since we launched the first volume four years ago. Give your Hebrew students the advantages of blended learning right now!

Market Failure—On Our Side of the Digital Gap

There’s a Digital Gap in our Jewish schools. Technology enriches our lives, connects us to friends and family, makes us productive, and lets us have fun, yet doesn’t seem to make it into our synagogue communities and perhaps more importantly, into our schools. This gap is growing. And as it widens, it sends a message to our children: This thing called Judaism, it’s old fashioned. It writes with a quill pen. It doesn’t fit in the modern world. But why? We are active in the arts, in the sciences, in business, in finance. Why this big, growing gap?

Fresh Off the Press

Learn more about our new releases by watching this short video! Click on the book cover to the right to place an order.

Lifelong Learning For Less

Is a faith-based life possible? How do you live one?  Challenge your adult students to grapple with Judaism this fall by reading As a Driven Leaf and The Prophet's Wife by Milton Steinberg. And you can save up to 34% by placing your order for these books before August 31.

Your Online Tour Guide

As you may have noticed, we recently redesigned our website. Our goal was to make articles, resources, and activities you normally use more accessible and to provide you with updates and useful news at a glance. We’ve been getting some calls though, saying that you can’t find certain parts of our site that you used to visit regularly. I’m here to help!

The Wrong Side of the Digital Divide

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The Wrong Side of the Digital Divide

  We’ve learned from Garrison Keillor that in the town of Lake Wobegon 90 percent of the children are above average.  How great for them.  But when we apply technology to education, the Jewish community is on the wrong side of the tracks: the rest of the world is far ahead of us. Far more than half of us are below average.

Experience Modern Israel - Sample Pages

By Aviva Werner  

Experience Modern Israel - Sample Pages

 I N - D E P T H   Experience Modern Israel

How to Use Shalom Uvrachah Interactive

How to Use Shalom Uvrachah Interactive

Teach Israel

 Experience Modern Israel

New from Behrman House. Fly to Israel without a plane ticket.

Discover Israel

 Let's Discover Israel

Offer younger children an exciting and age-appropriate introduction to the Jewish homeland