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The 5 Apps Your Students Should be Using NOW

Today's students are digital geniuses. Expand their learning beyond Trivia Crack and Candy Crush with these five fun and educational Behrman House Apps. Augmented Reality

New Picture Books are Coming to Behrman House and You Can be the First to Preview Them

They're coming! Six new picture books are on their way to Behrman House for their Fall 2015 debut, but YOU can preview them before everyone else when you sign up for the Golem Express.  This year we are releasing 15 titles including four new picture books; Kayla & Kugel, Farmer Kobi's Hanukkah Match, Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles, and Avi the Ambulance, King David & Akavish the Spider, and The Littlest Pair. 

Inclusive Education and the Faces of Tomorrow

Inclusive education has come a long way. In the past children with disabilities would not be seen sharing a classroom with their typically-developing peers. Thankfully, students today are growing up in a different school environment. For many classrooms today students with disabilities learn alongside their peers, proving that inclusive environments benefit everyone and help break down barriers. 

Hot Topics: Teen Drinking

The legal drinking age in the United States is 21. However, according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 24 percent of teens aged 12 to 20 drink. Jews traditionally have a glass of wine on Shabbat and drink four glasses of wine at the Passover seder. What should our attitude be towards alcohol and underage drinking? Help your students consider why some teens drink and write an anti-drinking TV commercial with the newest Hot Topics: Teen Drinking lesson plan.

Celebrate Tu B'Shevat with Mama Doni and Chocolate Bark

The possibilities are endless with this great fill-in-the-blank chocolate bark recipe from A Jewish American Family Cookbook by Mama Doni and Recipe Rachel! This yummy chocolate bark can be made in four easy steps and offers a chance for you to get creative with your own choice of toppings. 

Available Now: Augmented Reality App Brings the Alef Bet to Life

Help Students interact with the printed pages from Let's Discover the Alef Bet using the new Augmented Reality App from Behrman House.

We're Bringing the Alef Bet to Life and You Can be the First to Try it!

Now students can interact with the printed pages from Let's Discover the Alef Bet in an entirely new way, using the new Augmented Reality App from Behrman House. Watch the pages come alive with help from the camera on your mobile device or tablet to activate digital elements in the popular folders that introduce the Hebrew letters. 

Hot Topics: The Deaths of Garner and Brown

The deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown—both black Americans killed by white police officers—have sparked protests around the country, reawakening the debate about whether America’s criminal justice system is racist.  With the latest Hot Topics: The Deaths of Garner and Brown resource, you can help students discuss the need to improve the relationship between police officers and citizens of all races.

How Well are Your Students Decoding? Find Out Now!

You're back in the swing of the second half of school, but are your students? You can help them brush up on their Hebrew skills while tracking their progress in decoding with the Hebrew Reading Assessment by Lesley Litman. 

The Gateways Haggadah: A First of Its Kind

Behrman House proudly collaborated with Gateways: Access to Jewish Education to welcome families with children of all abilities and disabilities to their Passover table with the help of our new haggadah.  In a recent article from The Jewish Advocate by Director of Marketing and Communications at Gateways, Rachel Fadlon provided a little insight behind The Gateways Haggadah: A Seder for the Whole Family.

Hot Topics: Making Football Safer

Professional football is America's most popular sport and the Super Bowl is the most watched television in the country.  With the 49th Super Bowl less than two weeks away, it is a great time to discuss the safety measures and the price of a good tackle with the new Hot Topics: Making Football Safer lesson plan.

Are Part-Time Religious Schools Getting the Support They Deserve?

Have we demoralized supplemental school education directors? Lisa Harris Glass and Stephanie Hausner seem to think so. In the recent article, "Synagogue-based Religious Schools: A Community Responsibility," Glass and Hausner touched on the idea that we have consigned our number one opportunity - to inspire a lifelong love of Judaism and positive Jewish identity -  to a "less than" status.

Rabbi Danny Zemel's Non-Jewish Parent Aliyah Blessing Brings Changes for Interfaith Families

To provide a welcoming, inclusive ceremony for interfaith families, Rabbi Daniel Zemel of Temple Micah in Washington, DC created a different Bar-Bat Mitzvah blessing. 

It's All Done! Connect Students to Israel with ISRAEL21c Teacher's Edition Summary Packet

Last year Behrman House presented ISRAEL21c Teacher's Edition Summary Packet to assist educators as they find ways to enrich students' exploration of Israel with articles and videos. 

Coming Soon: Augmented Reality App Brings the Alef Bet to Life

Help students interact with the printed pages from Let's Discover the Alef Bet using the new Augmented Reality App from Behrman House. This February students will watch the pages come alive with help from the camera on their mobile or tablet to activate digital elements in the popular folders that introduce the Hebrew letters. 

Hot Topics: Homosexuality and the Jewish Community

How do we help students understand the nature of a Biblical to-evah (taboo) and how it influences our thinking about homosexuality? With the newest Hot Topics article and lesson plan, students will explore the nature of the Leviticus 18:22 text (which is often cited as a proof text for exclusion of homosexuals in religious communities,) and compare it to other to-evah in the Bible, and to our contemporary understanding of a taboo.

Educator Gets Results by Encouraging Hebrew Practice at Home with the Online Learning Center

We know that students are more successful learning Hebrew when they also practice a little at home. Here's how one educator encourages them, using the Online Learning Center. Lynn Calnek, Principal and Director of Life Long Learning at Temple Kol Tikvah in Davidson, NC, teaches 6-10 students who are new to Hebrew, learning the Alef Bet.  "It's hard for me to have tutors for each individual student," Calnek said. "The Online Learning Center gives me a better way to teach these students all together."

4 Ways to Encourage Students' Learning This Winter Break

It's important to help students maintain their Hebrew progress while they are on winter break.  In a recent article from The Washington Post, they presented 4 tips for students during break. We were inspired and put a Jewish touch on their suggestions for a more Jewish focus.  Here is how families can prevent educational atrophy:

Give Your Latkes an Extreme Makeover!

It's time to take your latkes to the next level! Impress your guests this Hanukkah with these creative recipes. Here are some of our favorites: Cheesy Potato Latkes. Simply add some cheese and the ooey-gooey goodness will thoroughly impress your guests.   

Hebrew Through Play: Apps and Games

Keep students focused during winter break with fun, family friendly Hebrew apps and games.  Children won't get rusty with Hebrew letter recognition with the Unlimited Alef Bet interactive mobile app. Families can use their iPhone, iPad, and Android devices to successfully learn to decode the Alef Bet with animated Hebrew words that talk!

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