Students

User Guides and Parent Permission Forms Mean a Quick Start to Using the OLC

Add our downloadable parent permission forms to your school registration packet to simplify your job this year.  We have ready-to-use written permission forms you can customize for your school. Distribute now with registration packets, add to your online forms, or give to parents at the beginning of the year.

New Game Packs Offer Fun, Creative Learning--Free

This spring Behrman House introduced two student journals, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values and Our Place in the Universe, together with free game packs, that will help students construct their learning in new ways. 

New from Behrman House

With the release of the new 2014-2015 catalog we wanted to recap our newest materials and review some recent favorites to help you get a head start on next year's planning. 

Bill Gates Said WHAT About Israel?

Israel Video Network shared this great video about the technological superpower Israel. What makes Israel a superpower?  In this video you will hear what Bill Gates, Google, Israel's Meir Brand, and more talk about what has contributed to Israel's technologically accomplishments. 

Introducing the Fun, Downloadable Frog-of-the-Day

Passover is on its way and we have an easy, fun way to build anticipation for Passover. Keep your students engaged in the story of Passover with these downloadable Frog-of-the-Day PDFs from the new Passover seder activity book, Frogs in the Bed.  Every day a new frog will be added to the list for you to download. 

Your Perfect Passover Made Easy with Behrman House

The first Passover Seder is April 14th! We have all of the resources you need to make it through-before, during, and after.

Create a Family Shabbat Program Using Visual Tefillah

Engage students in prayer with Visual Tefillah, a series of beautiful and thought-provoking PowerPoint slideshows to supplement Kol Yisrael

OLC Talk: What Educators are Saying

For two years the Online Learning Center has been providing extra Hebrew practice to over 11,000 students and 2,000 teachers and educators. Hear why educators are finding it useful.   Marla Wolf, Director of the religious school at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is using Ready, Set...Go Alef Bet! with the second graders because it provides a great set of tools to prepare them for third grade. 

Free App Offers New Ways to Practice Hebrew with Kol Yisrael

This free game and practice app lets students hear, practice, and record eight blessings and prayers from Kol Yisrael volumes 1, 2 and 3 on iPad.

Explore Ancient Wisdom, Wild Animals, and More with the Newest Volume of Israel21c

Your students saved the fish population in volume 11, judged an olive pit spit contest in volume 12, and will dig deeper into Israeli culture with the newest lesson plan from ISRAEL21c.

Coming Soon: Student Journals to Explore Jewish Values through Holidays, or Judaism and the Environment

New format uses journaling techniques to let students investigate how Jewish teachings can guide everyday decisions. This spring Behrman House will introduce two student journals, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values  and Our Place in the Universe, together with matching lesson plan manuals, that will help students construct their learning in new ways. 

Exodus Narrative in a Motion Comic Strip Gives Torah Study Added Zip

Motion-comics combine illustration with sound effects and movement. We've used them to try a new way to show students a connection between biblical values and their lives, The Amazing Torah Tablet. And best of all, it's FREE.  This comic series follows the exploits of Micah and Mollie, a brother and sister who face the daily dilemmas of middle school with the help of a magical Torah Tablet. When the siblings least expect it, the tablet comes alive, illuminating the wisdom of our sacred literature.

Try Explorer's Bible and Get the Matching Animated Series Free or the Rest of this School Year

Add animation to text study to help guide students to apply biblical values to their daily lives.   Now your students can take Bible exploration even further with an animated companion to Explorer’s Bible and earn badges in an interactive quest that features Jewish values. The series offers five interactive animated episodes help students delve more deeply into the text and values from Explorer’s Bible Volume 1.   

New Kol Yisrael Funbook Offers More Options for Hebrew Practice

The new Kol Yisrael Funbook is now available! Recommended for grades 4-6. This new workbook, by Dina Maiben, provides supplemental activities in a lively 80-page format that help students build fluency in reading and develop their understanding of the meaning of 26 prayers and blessings. Matched to specific lessons in the Kol Yisrael series, these exercises can also be used in conjunction with prayer materials from other series, or with your own materials.

Now Students Can Earn Badges for their Online Hebrew Work

We've added another cool tool for students to the Online Learning Center Students now will be able to track their progress by earning and collecting new Hebrew and Bible badges. As students complete each lesson in Ready, Set… Go Alef Bet, Alef Bet Quest, and Kol Yisrael Volumes 1-3, as well each of the five elements of the Lamed Vavnik Quest in The Explorers Bible, they will earn a new badge, which will become aprt of their permanent record in the OLC.

50% Off Certificates - 1 Week Only!

Get 50% off certificates between May 1st and May 8th, 2013*. Get ready for this year's graduating class or stock up for next year! Sale ends midnight 5/8/13. View and purchase certificates in the Behrman House online store (50% off will be automatically applied online) or mention this sale when you order by phone (800-221-2755). Presentation envelopes also available for $.50 each.

Your Link to Free Hebrew Help for Students and Families

Now you can give your students and their parents quick access to free Hebrew practice and games right from your school or synagogue website—and with no additional login required! We’ve made our popular practice modules, Click’n’Read, for decoding practice, and Click’n’Learn, for practicing prayers and blessings, available on a new, easy access page with no login required.

Students Reimagine Tzedakah with Sophisticated Designs

By Aviva Werner, Behrman House Editor and Student Track Judge for the “Where Do You Give?" National Design Competition

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorses JLand

JLand, a virtual world for Jewish children available in the Behrman House Online Learning Center, has caught the attention of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Happy Falafel Day!

Did you know that June 12th is International Falafel Day?  Originally a Middle Eastern street food as common as hot dogs in New York City, the tasty falafel has become a popular meal worldwide.  Not only is it delicious and easy to prepare, but it is also nutritious, vegan, and parve.  You don't have to travel all the way to Israel to celebrate Falafel Day; Behrman House has everything you need to host a fabulous falafel feast!

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