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Share Free Hebrew Practice Apps and Games with Students and Their Families

Do you need to learn mah nishtanah for Passover? Are you looking to connect your child with more Hebrew practice? Would you like to learn Hebrew through games and apps with your family? You can do it all for free with Behrman House.  Be Passover ready with this free mah nishtanah reading aid. You can learn or practice the four questions while reading along and hear the questions in different dialects.

A Throwback with Mah Tovu

When Rabbi Ken Chasen, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, and Steve Brodsky joined together to form Mah Tovu, they became the hottest Jewish musical group on the camp circuit for a number of years.  The boys in the band moved on to other areas of Jewish leadership and responsibility (Ken is now Senior Rabbi at Leo Baeck Temple, Yoshi serves as Senior Educator/Rabbi at Stephen S. Wise Temple, and Steve is with the URJ) but they never lost their love of writing and performing music.

Did Wolves Change the Environment? Can We?

We want our students to engage in tikkun olam yet they may wonder what difference they can really make. The controversy over the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park can help you kick off an amazing discussion about our ability to make a difference in the world. Our upcoming book, Our Place in the Universe: Judaism and the Environment Journal helps students consider competing values and work through ways they can have real impact.

Tel Aviv gets Happy for Purim

Be Happy, It's Purim! Take a moment to enjoy this toe-tapping video from ISRAEL21c.  ISRAEL21c took to the streets of Tel Aviv and Jaffa for one reason - to make people dance. The results lead to this happy video.   

Purim Lessons on Justice from Our New Student Journal on Values and Holidays

Purim is a time for food and fun as we commemorate victory over a villain. It can also be a time to take younger students into a deeper exploration of essential questions about justice. What is justice, and why do people put themselves at risk to fight for it? How do the main characters in the Purim story serve as examples of justice? Explore these questions with this lesson plan from the new student journal, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values, coming this spring.  Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue: A Purim Lesson

Save on End-of-the-Year Certificates

Yes it feels early, but the end of the school year will be here before we know it. Save 50% this month on certificates to thank volunteers, acknowledge teachers, and help your students celebrate their accomplishments.

Choose Your Noise with this Free Gragger for your iPhone

Use your iPhone for more than Facebook and texting. Use your phone to participate in a customary Jewish megillah reading experience with the Noisemaker Gragger app!

Why Derech Binah is So Popular after All These Years

Derech Binah turns 30 this year and remains a favorite in Jewish classrooms. Find out why this smart little primer by Ruby Strauss is still loved by teachers and students nationwide.  Teachers say they find Derech Binah clear and easy to use. Look-alike letters are taught together which addresses visual discrimination issues up front. Hebrew letters are also presented in isolation, rather than in whole words, which many students find reassuring. 

Get Cooking with a Yummy Recipe for Purim

Have a delicious Purim celebration with this FREE hamantashen recipe created by Recipe Rachel, co-author of Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family Cookbook and Rockin' Mama Doni Celebration. 

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

Join Jewish Rock Radio in New Music Curriculum

Join singer-songwriter Rick Recht as he shows your teen students how music, media, and technology impact their lives and Jewish identities with the new five-module downloadable curriculum "Jews, Technology, and Rock!".  In this 26-page curriculum teens will be able to: 

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.

It's Time to Make the Switch to Golem Express

Many used the Golem Plan to review innovative materials but made the switch to Golem Express, a streamlined plan that brings new materials directly to your door with no budget surprises, no added shipping charges, and just one invoice for the full year. After making the switch many found the Golem Express to be not just convenient, but cost efficient. 

Seder Activity Book Available with Haggadah Promotion

Author and illustrator Ann Koffsky tracked down songwriter Shirley Cohen Steinberg, who created the perennial Passover favorite “One Morning, (The Frog Song).” The result is Frogs in the Bed: My Passover Seder Activity Book.

We're All About Rick Recht!

Teachers and youth group leaders can relate directly to their teens’ lives as they bring music, digital devices, Facebook, and personal discussion into the classroom. The purpose? For teens to identify core Jewish principles embedded in Jewish rock music.

New Israel Lesson Plans for Grades 4-7 Features Geography, Social Action, Culture, and Connection with Israel.

You want new ways to connect your students with Israel today. We have 14 new lesson plans that will help.

Resources to Help Plan Your Curriculum

Planning Curriculum for Next Fall? We Have Resources to Help. Time flies by. Even as students and teachers are immersed right now in the most productive part of the school year, soon it will be time to plan for the fall. We want to make sure you have tools at your fingertips when you want to begin.

Holocaust Book Features Just One Word

As a math and Jewish studies teacher in a Jewish day school, Phil Chernofsky wanted a different and meaningful way for his students to relate to the Holocaust. The result?  It's the word Jew, printed in very small type, in 40 columns on 120 lines on every one of 625 sheets (1,250 pages). Six million times in all, one for each Jew who perished during the Shoah.

Golem Express: The Easy Choice.

The Golem Plan has long been the best way to review innovative materials for Jewish education as soon as they are published. With the new Golem Express now available, many are finding the switch to Golem Express to be a no brainer. “This was the easiest decision I ever made!  To pay one flat fee and be assured that I am receiving all the new materials that you produce makes my life easier.” Cathy Swerdlow, Congregational Life Coordinator of Temple Israel said.

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.   

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 Experience Modern Israel

New from Behrman House. Fly to Israel without a plane ticket.

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 Let's Discover Israel

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