Teachers & Educators

Travel (Virtually) to Israel for the High Holidays with ISRAEL21c: Rosh Hashanah

Looking for a unique way to celebrate the High Holidays with your students? ISRAEL21c has created a list of the best things to do in Israel this holiday season! Although these activities are suggested IN Israel, various resources are available to share with students to help celebrate Israeli style.  Rosh Hashanah, September 14-15, 2015

Sweet Treats for a Happy New Year!

It's time to start planning your delicious meals for Rosh Hashanah! This year, our go-to appley recipe comes from Mama Doni and Recipe Rachel's family cookbook Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family Cookbook. With this easy recipe you'll have your Rosh Hashanah guests begging for more!

Author Tina Wasserman has Classroom Tips for a Sweet and Yummy New Year!

By Tina Wasserman, author of Entree to Judaism and Entree to Judaism for Families Rosh Hashanah is arriving shortly after many schools have only been in session a week or two.  This presents a problem for teachers who want to delve into the traditions surrounding the holidays. 

Reinforce Hebrew Learning with Free Apps

How can we help students ease back into learning mode in a fun and informative way? Whether giving extra assistance to young learners practicing the alef bet, practice decoding, or want reinforcement through play, Behrman House has the apps you need.  Review Hebrew letters with Augmented Reality Kids will watch the pages of Let's Discover the Alef Bet come to life with help from the camera on their mobile device or tablet to activate digital elements in the popular folders Bet, Dalet, Yud, and Tav. 

Who Will You Be Next?

Have you ever thought about who you'll be when you're not doing what you're doing now?  We are each following a path, building a life, a career, a family. As we age and begin to think forward to retirement, we begin to reflect on these paths and the choices made along the way. We may begin wondering, 'What happens to me next?' or even 'What will I have left?'

Apples & Honey Authors Karen Rostoker-Gruber and Rabbi Ron Isaacs Want to Visit Your School!

Award-winning children's book authors and Apples & Honey Press' Farmer Kobi's Hanukkah Match authors, Karen Rostoker-Gruber and Rabbi Ron Isaacs want to visit YOUR JCC or School. In their interactive program, children will listen to Farmer Kobi's Hanukkah Match, sing Hanukkah songs, play Hanukkah games, and personally get their book signed at the end of the program. Watch out for Karen's friend Maria the puppet - she may call on children to come up and be part of the show!

Color Your Way to Calmness

It's a pastime our students and children love, but I bet you didn't know it's good for YOU too. According to a recent article in the Huffington post by Pricilla Frank, of the current top 20 selling books on Amazon six of them are adult coloring books.  "The unlikely pastime for those of us who have successfully graduated from kindergarten has been gaining popularity of late, as an easy means to express oneself and de-stress along the way," Frank explains. 

The Back-to-School Reading Workout Your Students Need

It's been a long summer! If your students completed a Hebrew primer last year, you can help them hone their decoding skills this fall with practice games and exercises from Back to School Hebrew Reading Refresher.

Camp Connection: Help Students Reflect on Summer Camp Experiences through Play

How can a deck of cards help returning students reflect on their camp experiences from a Jewish values point of view? Jewish Values Challenge Cards help kids process some of their feelings about camp, camp expreiences, and camp friendships using 58 Jewish values in a playful environment using card-based games created by Robyn Faintich. 

URJ Update: How We Can Help Supplement Chai 7 in Your Learning Environment

Last week we happily announced the addition of Chai levels 1 and 2 to our list of available titles. Although we are still awaiting the proper documentation to publish Chai level 7, we have a variety of other materials that can help as a substitute as we actively pursue the rights to bring Chai level 7 to your learning environment. 

Add Great Stories to Your Learning Environment

We've been thinking a great deal about the values of stories in enriching the learning environment we provide for our children and listening to your calls for more high quality Jewish story books for children. The result - Apples & Honey Press. 

URJ Update: CHAI Level 1 and Level 2 Are Here!

We know you've been waiting, and we are happy to announce the addition of CHAI Level 1 Core Curriculum and student workbooks, Avodah, G'milut Chasadim, and Torah; 

8 Better Ways to Ask "What Did You Do this Summer?"

In just a short month many learning centers will be full of students and the teacher will be asking that very same question as the year before, "What did you do this summer?" How can we move beyond questions that simply elicit a check-list response and find ones that generate thoughtful or even surprising responses? Teacher and blogger Jenny Froehle recently tackled this concept and offers these 8 ways to ask instead:

OLC Secret New Feature: Review Student List

Organizing is key for a successful start to a new school year and the Online Learning Center just gained a new feature to help you organize your students' accounts. Education Directors* now have the power to see the entire student list to check for duplicate accounts and remove non-returning students. Here's How:

Bring Hineni to Life in the OLC

The Hineni prayer series has been the long-time favorite way to guide students in learning both prayers and their meaning. Now your students can experience Hineni virtually in the Online Learning Center with our digital companion.

Six Steps to Start a Wise Aging Group in Your Synagogue

In his book Relational Judaism, Dr. Ron Wolfson says that developing deep relationships with the many individuals who come into our midst is key to building Jewish communities. While we often focus on how to do so through our children, the book Wise Aging by Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal gives us the opportunity to do that deep work with adults 55 and older. 

How to Save on Shipping Costs

With our 24 business hour shipping policy and partnership with UPS to guarantee fast, insured shipping, we are committed to helping you get the best service and price for your orders. 

Planning for Fall: Part Three

The summer is flying by. Will you be prepared for Fall?  In the final part of our three-part "Preparing for Fall" series, we will help you set expectations early and ensure that parents and students feel prepared. Reach out to Students and their Parents Help parents and students feel confident by providing easy steps to access their Behrman House accounts and classrooms. 

It's Back! Special Offer When You Sign Up for Golem Express.

Many have signed up for the Golem Express plan for a simpler, more predictable way to review innovative materials for Jewish education - what are you waiting for? By signing up now, you can be the first to see our new materials for the remainder of this year until December 2016 for the same $99 flat fee*. Here's how it works:

Learn to Read Hebrew Fast at NewCAJE Conference

By Lee Brice At this year’s NewCAJE conference in West Hartford, CT, I’ll be leading a Hebrew Reading Marathon—a 9-hour Hebrew decoding workshop using the book Alef Isn't Tough by Rabbi Linda Motzkin.  

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