Behrman House Basics
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We understand that planning a curriculum, whether for a single grade or for an entire school, can feel overwhelming. That's why we offer a variety of resources to help you navigate the process.
Catalog
Our 2023 catalog features new resources for online learning, as well as many of the Behrman House materials you've relied on before. It also includes pull-out Judaica and Hebrew Curriculum Planning Guides (details below).
The 2023 catalog is now available online here.
We will also have a printed catalog available in July. If you would like a hard copy of the catalog, please contact customersupport@behrmanhouse.com.
Planning Guides
Consult
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Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen has joined Behrman House/Apples & Honey Press as Editor.
She will be acquiring and developing children’s trade books with a focus on enduring values and Jewish identity and culture, as well as Jewish educational and adult interest titles.
The author of eight picture books, including the Engineer Ari series, and a teen novel, her writing has received recognition including Sydney Taylor Honors, PJ Library selections, and Scholastic Book Fair Selections.
Her connection to Behrman House goes back to 1994 when she was a researcher for Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values, by Rabbi Barry Schwartz. A contributor to Israel, It’s Complicated, she also has authored a number of Behrman House teacher guides. She is currently working on The Heroes Haggadah, which will be published by Behrman House in 2024.
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Posted: September 07, 2022||It's not enough to teach our children HOW to be Jewish. Apples & Honey Press books also seek to show them WHY the values and the teachings of our tradition are important.Read more »
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Behrman House Signs with Two Rivers Distribution
Agreement also includes trade distribution for Apples & Honey Press imprint as well as direct fulfillment to serve Behrman House educational customers
Behrman House and Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram brand, announced that Two Rivers will now handle worldwide trade distribution for Behrman House and its children’s book imprint, Apples & Honey Press, effective immediately.
In addition, Ingram’s warehousing operation in Jackson, TN will handle all direct fulfillment to Behrman House’s education and online customers.
“We are excited to partner with Two Rivers to help us expand and to ensure that our books are as widely available as possible. It’s a great way to enter our 101st year,” said David Behrman, Pr
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We understand that planning a curriculum, whether for a single grade or for an entire school, can feel overwhelming. That's why we offer a variety of resources to help you navigate the process.
Planning Guides
Consult our downloadable pullout guides - organized by grade level, subject and ability - to match your needs with the best Hebrew and Jewish heritage materials for your students. Download the Judaica Planning Guide or the Hebrew Curriculum Guide.
Consider three BIG IDEAS that encompass the key values and purpose of part-time
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Our books are on the move.
The first three trucks of Behrman House and Apples & Honey Press books have been unloaded in their new warehouse in Tennessee, and another is on the way this week. In all, we are moving more than half a million books from Ohio.
Beginning this spring, Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram company, will handle warehousing and distribution for Behrman House’s school and online orders.
We are also putting the finishing touches on the systems that will be used to transmit your orders.
When we begin shipping from our new location in four to six weeks, you can expect to a dramatic improvement in shipping times for your orders.
As we transition to our new facility,
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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.
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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
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Dear Colleague,
The supply problems and shipping delays that are plaguing the entire U.S.—in fact the worldwide—economy have hit us here in Jewish education as well, and we want to provide you with an update on our book shipping situation.
As you may already be painfully aware, our Ohio warehouse partner is backlogged, and our shipments are running late, in some cases 2-3 weeks or more. We’re in touch with them daily; they a re prioritizing our shipments and those of their other education-related clients, but they are having difficulty finding adequate staff. They have flown people in from other locations and have executive and other staff doing temporary duty in picking and packing books; so far it hasn’t been enough.
In addition, while the war