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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

Tech Tools was a regular column of excellent technology tips to inspire you and add creativity to your teaching. Here are a few of those simple tools to enhance remote teaching.

Gimkit is a quiz learning game…and was created by a student!

Think visually, brainstorm, organize, and share ideas.

The Technology

 Blended Play is a free website that allows you to create fun games that can help your students review content.

The many game options offer engaging themes, such as outer space, medieval castles, and sushi making. Each game presents a goal for students to strive for as they review the content that you input into the game. For example, in one castle game, students try to be the first to build a ladder and get over the castle wall. Each time a student (or a team of students) answers a review question correctly, the ladder grows taller until they finally reach their goal.

To create your own game, visit the website and click the red section in the middle to