Monthly Archives: January 2022

Welcome February with chocolate. 

A lot of chocolate is purchased in this short month, whether as gifts or personal consumption. It's also not too early to decide whether to host a chocolate seder this year.

However you enjoy chocolate, there's a lot of backstory to how chocolate came to Europe, and eventually, the United States, via Sephardic Jews. 

Coming on February 1 is The Chocolate King by Michael Leventhal and illustrated by Laura Catalan, which tells an intergenerational story of chocolate and the Jewish community in Spain and France.

Benjamin

This year in our dining room.

Get ready for Passover with our annual 25 for 25 sale!

Purchase 25 or more copies of any of our haggadot and get an extra 25% off now through the end of February.

Feel free to mix and match - the extra 25% discount applies to any combination of our haggadot. Get them at a terrific price. (Standard shipping rates apply.)

No promo code necessary. The discount is applied automatically at checkout, on top of any regular quantity discounts are already available for religious schools, synagogues, and bookstores. Be sure you're logged into your Behrman House account to get the best discounts. 

Not sure if your organization already gets quantity purchase discounts? Contact us for more information. 

Thirteen turns into a lucky number as Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House, announces its largest lineup of Spring children’s books ever. All the books are available now for preorder on Amazon, and direct from Behrman House on their respective release dates.

The season kicks off on February 1 with the U.S. release of

The popular study guides Parashat HaShavua are now available in digital turn-page format, so students can continue their b'nai mitzvah learning seamlessly, whether they are in person, remote, or a combination of both.

There is a study guide for each of the 54 weekly Torah portions, and includes blessings, an overview of the weekly reading, the text of the reading in both Hebrew and English, rabbinical commentary, and study and discussion questions. Each guide also includes the corresponding Haftarah reading, in Hebrew and English.

Your purchase includes a physical copy of the book PLUS access to a digital turn-page version of the book, with permission to share it with one student for one school year. 

The turn-page version is an exact duplicate of the physical book, including the same page numbering. 

Access to the turn-page version is combined with a physical book. It is designed to make

Behrman House has signed with Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram company, to handle its warehousing and distribution. Beginning in spring 2022 and in time for the important back-to-school season, Behrman House’s school and online orders will ship from an Ingram facility in Jackson, Tennessee.

Two Rivers is a New York-based book distributor whose clients include Harvard Business Review Press, Merrell Publishers, Peterson’s B.E.S. and Presbyterian Publishers.

“We are excited to partner with Two Rivers. Ingram’s extensive capabilities will give us many more options for ensuring that customers get their orders when they expect them, said Vicki W

With inflation concerns spreading, we know educators are worried about budgets for the coming school year.

With that in mind, Behrman House has decided to forgo price increases for 2022 and absorb any costs increases this year. You have enough to think about right now.