We worked throughout the pandemic beyond to avoid price increases on school materials.

And we succeeded: we held prices steady for four years across our backlist in our effort to support our school customers through a very difficult period, while making available the broadest and deepest selection of materials for Jewish education you can find anywhere. At the same time, as educators pivoted to Zoom and other remote learning options, we increased access to our materials by creating online versions, made downloadable pdfs and other versions available, and provided a variety of free instant lessons. As recently as this fall we made another rich set of resources and a number of digital children's picture books about Israel available at no charge for those seeking to help kids develop context for what has been going on since October 7.

In the past two years, however, printing, freight, and other costs have skyrocketed. A series of meetings last month showed us just how tough things have become: If we are to keep our array of materials broad, deep, and widely available we needed to make a change.

What it means: With great regret, over the New Year’s weekend we implemented our first price increase in a four years. (For some materials, it has actually been five). The new prices were reflected on our website as of January 1; our new catalog will be available online in February, with hard copies available beginning in April for school ordering.

If you are budgeting and need to know any new prices, please email customer support at behrmanhouse.com with any queries. From the entire Behrman House team: Thank you for your business and your continued support. You make Jewish education work, and we are proud to work along with you in that noble, if sometimes challenging, endeavor.