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Guide Students to Make Meaning of Jewish Holidays

How can students learn Jewish values from our Holiday traditions? Jewish holidays are based on the Hebrew calendar, which follows the cycles of the moon and causes holidays to fall on different days every year. Guide students as they grapple with challenging questions about Jewish Holidays and traditions with help from some of our newest educational materials. Suggested materials include:

Teaching Beresheet: a Free Kindle Resource

Help students explore the history, laws, values, and relationships embodied in the Torah with a free Kindle edition of a chapter from Teaching Torah.

Easily Integrate Jewish Values into Your Curriculum

How do we help kids operate in a complicated world? Everyday kids face dilemmas that could be challenging. For example, we value sh'lom bayit and expect children to do the same. What if a non-Jewish friend invites them over for dinner on Shabbat, when the family has designated that as family time? What if the biggest soccer game of the season falls on Yom Kippur?

Honoring the Elderly: Free Kindle Chapter

Long life is a reward for living righteously. Help students honor the elderly with activities to share their life stories with a free Kindle edition of a chapter from Teaching Mitzvot - Concepts, Values, and Activities.  

New Vacation Trends for Your Furry Friend: Part of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim (Kindness to Animals)?

People consider pets to be a part of the family. When the family goes away, it can be hard to part with four-legged friends.

Being Kind to Animals: Free Kindle Edition

Kids know that animals are important. Do they know that Jewish law agrees? Help them explore the ways Judaism supports the value of being kind to animals with a free Kindle edition of a chapter from Teaching Mitzvot - Concepts, Values, and Activities.

New Alef Bet Quest Games Available Now!

We’ve refreshed your favorite primer, Alef Bet Quest with a few new games for the upcoming school year. After completing each lesson, a matching interactive game will be available to help students learn how to decode Hebrew.  One new game allows students to shoot basketballs in a three-point shooting contests after choosing the correct Hebrew letters. Students will  learn to recognize Hebrew letters and vowels as they play through both Jewish cultural words and everyday Hebrew words.

Enriching Instruction with Music: Free Kindle Chapter

Throughout the generations Jews have used music for storytelling, prayer, and teaching. You can easily integrate music into your curriculum with a free kindle edition chapter from The Ultimate Jewish Teacher's Handbook.

Beyond Apples and Honey: Free Kindle Chapter

Jewish education is always changing and we want to help you stay ahead with a free Kindle edition of a chapter from The Ultimate Jewish Teacher's Handbook.

Camp Connection: Use Jewish Values to Reflect on Camp Experiences

Welcome students back in the fall by helping them reflect on their camp experiences from a Jewish values point of view, using the Jewish Values Challenge Cards. 

Oh, Say Can You....Eat!

July 4th is about freedom, friends, family, and food! Celebrate your burger independence by choosing from customized burgers with a variety of condiments from Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family Cookbook and Rockin' Mama Doni Celebration. Get Cooking with these easy to follow recipes:

Camp Connection: Enhance Proper Pronunciation with Visual Tefillah

Your students are headed off to Jewish summer camp this week to spend the weeks ahead immersed in rich Jewish experiences.  Although they will have daily opportunities to practice Birkat Hamazon and other blessings and prayers, many learners will hear the words incorrectly. You can help correct pronunciation with Visual Tefillah in the fall.  This 13-slide slideshow connects kids back to their camp experiences, and also corrects any mispronunciation with line-by-line text in Hebrew and in English. 

Coming Soon: Track Students' Prayer Progress Online with Digital Hineni

Soon educators will be able to use the strong and well-supported Hineni materials with a new online practice element for the Online Learning Center. These materials will be available for laptops AND tablets.  Hineni OLC Edition is a seven-module prayer series featuring 35 different prayers and blessings. The prayers will be presented in a touch-n-read fashion with the ability to click on each word to hear it. Learners will also be able to record themselves for teachers to assess.

Camp Connection: Our Place in the Universe Helps You Connect Students Back to their Summer Camp Experiences in Nature

Students are getting ready to go off to summer camp to experience the outdoors, focus on nature and friendships, and immerse themselves in Jewish settings. 

Set the Stage for Hebrew Decoding Success with Unlimited Alef Bet

Want a fun way for your child to successfully learn to decode the Alef Bet? Behrman House’s newest interactive mobile app for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices introduces young children to Hebrew letters and simple words. Kids will enjoy matching letters to create animated Hebrew words that talk. In creating activated Hebrew words themselves, children will begin to associate the sound with the letter and the words th letter helps to build. A fun and free game, Unlimited Alef Bet helps children learn to decode Hebrew letters, vowels, and words.

New Scenario Cards Add Challenges to Jewish Values Playing Cards

Add 32 scenarios to the new Jewish Values Challenge playing cards to help teens and pre-teens develop a deeper understanding of 58 Jewish values in a playful environment using card-based games created by Robyn Faintich.  Scenarios for Jewish Values Challenge Playing Cards allows students to explore real life challenging situations that can be handled with Jewish values. Learners will discuss how to handle situations like receiving a gift they do not like, obeying parent's rules, receiving too much change, and much more. 

Give Children the Keys to Independent Discovery with Shabbat Interactive

Now children, ages 6-11, can explore the magic of Shabbat on their own terms with Shabbat Interactive.  This digital experience helps children make meaning of all the core elements of Jewish identity. 

Choose-Your-Own Cheesecake Recipes for Shavuot

Get your Shavuot cheesecake ready for a creating topping with these choose-your-own recipes from Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family Cookbook and Rockin' Mama Doni Celebration. Whether you're picking up a cheesecake from the store or whipping one up from scratch these free recipes from Recipe Rachel and Mama Doni will help you bring something special to your Shavuot celebration.

Reflect on Teaching and Learning During Shavuot

As the school year comes to an end, Shavuot offers a uniquely appropriate opportunity for us as teachers to reflect on the year and our students' learning. It is also a moment for us to pause and consider our own thoughts and feelings about some of the questions we ask of our learners during the year.   These reflection questions, based on the lesson on Talmud Torah from our new student journal Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values, might spur your thinking.

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