Hebrew

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.

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. 

Digital Badges Incent Practice and Show Students' Accomplishments

As your students complete lessons in Ready, Set...Go Alef Bet, Alef Bet Quest, Kol Yisrael 1, 2, and 3 as well as the 5 traits in Explorer's Bible 1 Animated, they will be rewarded with badges to encourage learning and track their progress.  A new section to the Online Learning Center has been added to show students' accomplishments called "My Badges" on the yellow navigation bar. 

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.

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. 

Jewish Values in Game Form

By Eliana Schechter

School & Publisher: Crafting an Effective Online Partnership

Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York was an early adopter of the Online Learning Center, and continues to be an active “power user” of the platform to support its Hebrew program.  The relationship between Emanu-El and Behrman House has become exceptionally strong. I asked Saul Kaiserman, Director, Lifelong Learning, to reflect with me on what has made the relationship so successful, so that we can build on it in developing all of our relationships with OLC members across the country.

Detroit Federation's Alliance Welcomes New Regional OLC Expert

Breaking News: The Detroit Federation’s Alliance for Jewish Education has selected master educator and Associate Director Harvey Leven to become the regional expert on how to use the Behrman House Online Learning Center (OLC).

Coming Soon: New Games for Alef Bet Quest

We're refreshing Alef Bet Quest with a few new games for the next school year. We will have updates available in the next couple of weeks. 

Keep Students Busy with Summer Hebrew Games and Practice

Encourage students to retain the Hebrew reading skills they've gained this yea with some practice using Hebrew games over the summer.

Hebrew in Five Minutes a Day

Hebrew reading is a skill, and brain-based research tells us that skills develop best when they are practiced in many short sessions rather than one long one. How does that work in the Jewish congregational school setting? Educator Dina Maiben, author of Alef Bet Quest and Ready, Set  . . .Go Alef Bet and some of our educator colleagues have some ideas.

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.

Coming this Summer: Jewish Values Playing Cards

Work with teens and pre-teens on developing a deeper understanding of 58 Jewish values in a playful environment using card-based games created by Robyn Faintich.  Each card in this 58-card card deck includes the name of a significant Jewish value in English, Hebrew, and transliterated Hebrew, along with a one-sentence explanation to help clarify the value.

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. 

Encourage Learning by Applying Biblical Values to Daily Life

Try the Explorer's Bible Animated Series, Free If you are already using volume one of The Explorer's Bible to guide students in the values we find in text study, we invite you to try the animated lessons that go along with it to help students apply these values to daily life.

The New 2014-2015 Catalog is Here!

The 2014-2015 catalog is here to allow you to see our newest releases and get a head start on planning for next year. From our new student journals, to a rocking new curriculum, to a Passover seder activity book, we have everything you need to plan for any event, lesson, or just for fun activity available. 

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