Frog's Blog: Tu BiShevat

What Moses Can Teach Us About Setting Goals

What can Moses teach us about New Year's resolutions? Our annual good intentions so often fall apart before they ever really begin, and perhaps that's because our self-created barriers of "can't" and "won't" get in the way. 

Behrman House Launches Web and OLC Redesign

Behrman House recently kicked off the first phase of a design overhaul to the website and Online Learning Center. The redesign process, which will take many months, will help us create a simple, fresh, and engaging digital portal where you can share, learn, and play. We'll be making things simpler and clearer for educators, teachers, students, parents, and families to find and use all our great content from any device, any time.

Authors of Farmer Kobi's Hanukkah Match to Sign Books at New Jersey Barnes and Noble

Warm up for the holiday season with the award-winning authors of Farmer Kobi’s Hanukkah Match, Karen Rostoker-Gruber and Rabbi Ron Isaacs.

When Are Your Favorite Musicians Coming to Your Neighborhood?

We've added a new feature to our web page where you can follow your favorite Jewish musicians and see when they're performing near you. More than 40 of the top names in today's Jewish music scene are featured artists in Hebrew in Harmony — our new Hebrew through music series — and they will regularly be adding their events and concerts to our new musician calendar so you can keep tabs on when they're coming to your town.

David Behrman to Address Business Leaders about Innovation

Throughout its 95-year history, Behrman House has been adept at changing and innovating to meet the needs of its religious and educational customers.  From shifting from a retail storefront (Behrman's Jewish Book Shop on lower 5th Avenue in Manhattan in the early 1920's) into print -- and increasingly, digital -- publishing, while consolidating its publishing and warehouse operations under one roof, Behrman House continues to evaluate and redefine itself in response to the changing world around it.

Jewish Wisdom For Today's Parents

Of all the child-raising challenges Dr. Maurice Elias has counseled parents on in his long career, anger tops the list. Not childhood aggression, however, but parental tempers. "Anger is corrosive," he says, "Children don't hear the words you're using, they just feel your anger in their core." 

Move From Oy to Joy: Parenting Tips to Foster Resilience

Let’s face it: the day-to-day realities of parenting can be messy. Fortunately, Jewish tradition offers timeless wisdom, values, and guidance to help parents of all faiths and backgrounds. The new book The Joys & Oys of Parenting: Insight and Wisdom from the Jewish Tradition begins with the concept of shalom bayit (a peaceful home) and offers practical ideas, advice, and inspiration for raising children into confident, kind, responsible adults.

Simchat Torah Time: Show Students How It's Made

With Simchat Torah just around the corner, we've put together a free educator's guide for using How It's Made: Torah Scroll - the vibrant new resource that enhances the learning of the holiest object in Judaism.