Equally fluent in Yiddish and Javascript, Russel Neiss is a Jewish educator, technologist and coder. Russel began his career as an itinerant Jewish educator traveling across the deep south and has worked in a variety of Jewish educational settings including day schools, supplemental schools, museums and archives. He holds a BA in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies from CUNY's Macaualy Honors College, an MLS with a specialization in digitization and instructional technology from Queens College and an MSEd in Educational Leadership from Brooklyn College. He currently serves as the Director of Educational Technology at G-dcast where he develops mobile and other interactive applications to raise Jewish literacy and help educators integrate technology in a pedagogically sound way. Russel lives in Brooklyn with his wife Rori Picker Neiss, a consultant in interfaith dialogue and student at Yeshivat Maharat.

We're currently developing a number of exciting projects (think: PocketTorah 2.0, gaming for Israel education, collaborative Jewish music, geo-locative learning and more). 

Be in touch if you'd like to collaborate or hire us for a project you're already working on.

A host of games geared toward early childhood Hebrew literacy.  Made possible by the generous support of The Covenant Foundation.  

Visit http://alephbetapp.com/ to download the app!

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Our Winning Entry in the 2010 Jewish Futures Competition

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Send Charlie & Russel to New Orleans

Launched in 2009 MediaMidrash is an online platform linking multimedia content to innovative curricula, providing Jewish educators the ability to bring art, animation, film and music directly into their classrooms. We sold MediaMidrash's content and code base to Behrman House Book Publishers in 2011.

Visit MediaMidrash here.

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