The Road from Carmel Jill Kenton and Doron Junger

As the first season of The Road from Carmel podcast comes to an end, hear from some of its listeners with feedback on the podcast, and from Jill and Doron with their Season 1 highlights.
 
Wishing everyone a chag sameach - we will see you down The Road from Carmel!
 
Personal mentions:
 
Jack Mizel
Lindsay Simmonds
Ashley Perry
Adam Sherridan
Debbie Collins
David Sheldon
Fiona Sandyk
Martin Kaye
Alan Bloom
Fanni Prais
Philip Powell
Simon Jackson
Neomi Junger
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen
Ray Schinazi
Dana Shaul Malmstrom
David Dangoor
Toby Tenenbaum
Zoe Waxman
Kenny Wax
Joanna Marcus Landau
Daniel Marcus
Stephen Endelman
Rachel Feuerstein
Joe Feuerstein
 
Special thanks to Sam Williams at SWSV Productions for his professional editing services and consistently sleek artwork throughout Season 1 of The Road from Carmel podcast - we appreciate your many contributions, and are grateful to have been working with you 🙏🏼
 
 

Joining Jill and Doron on the 18th episode of the podcast, the last of our first season, to tell us their story, are siblings Rachel Feuerstein (1981-88) and Joe Feuerstein (1981-87), whose devout mixed-faith parentage made for a highly unusual Carmel experience never before publicly discussed.
 
Rachel, now known as RD (short for Rochel Dina) Rubin, is a former classmate of Jill and Doron’s, and Head Girl of their year.  She is the founder of a Judaica business, “The Shabbat Collection”, and after living in half a dozen different cities in North America and Asia, settled in Jerusalem, where for the past fifteen years she has lived with her three children. She wrote a manuscript about her interfaith upbringing and journey.
 
Joe studied medicine in London and Cambridge, served as a combat physician in the IDF’s navy, and completed his family and integrative medicine training in the United States, including at Columbia University in NYC, where he is an assistant professor of medicine.  Joe has treated over 45,000 patients with serious medical conditions using only natural approaches. He authored the books “Dr. Joe’s Man Diet” and “The Cannabinoid Cookbook”.  He is a regular guest on a TV show produced for a faith-based African-American audience, and co-host of the award-winning internet cooking series “Condition Kitchen”.  Joe lives in Connecticut with his wife and five children.
 
Hear Rachel and Joe talk about being admitted to Carmel (and Rachel becoming Head Girl) before being recognized as Jewish by the Beth-Din, Rachel discovering centrifugal force, Joe making a theater erupt in laughter, and how the Almighty works in mysterious ways.
 
Thank you, Rachel and Joe Feuerstein, for turning us again to Carmel days!
 
Dedication: at Rachel and Joe’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of our Carmel contemporary Dr. Daniel Cammerman (1980-87), an Oxford graduate and pediatrician in NYC, who at the age of 50 tragically died in a traffic accident in Central Park in December 2019.  He is survived by his wife and their two children, and by his younger siblings Gideon and Rachel, both also Carmel alumni.

Personal mentions in this episode:
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (Headmaster)
Philip Skelker (Headmaster)
Joel Silver (Housemaster & Computer Studies)
Reverend Mordechai Berkovitch (Jewish Studies)
Alan Edmondson (Chemistry)
Martin Edmonds (French)
Jill Johnston (Music)
Dr. John Addis (History)
Mary Evans (Mathematics)
Abraham Nonoo
Jeff Benjamin
Penina Borisute
Sean Rogg
Timothy Rogg
Anabel (Petter) Junger
Fiona Grankin
Joanne Miller
Nava Corin
Lindsay Simmonds
Nikki Borisute
Ashley Perry
Emma Goldstone
Isaac Levy
Natalie Solomon
Jackie Sharp
Mel Elias
Jonathan Feigenbaum
Gavin Geminder
Rebecca Wernick
Colin Nahon
Michael Nahon
Jamie King
Daniel Epstein
Leila Djemal
Judith Djemal
Abby Borisute
Sean Casper
Houda Nonoo
Trevor Simon
Ernst Kastner
Abigail Simon
Toby Simon
Adam Gumbiner
Daniel Cammerman
Gideon Cammerman
Rachel Cammerman
 
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To tell us your story, email us at doronjunger@yahoo.com / jill@jillkenton.co.uk
 

Joining Jill and Doron on the 17th episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is composer and film producer Stephen Endelman (1973-77), a resident of Los Angeles in California.

Stephen earned Grammy and Golden Globe nominations for crafting music for a multitude of films across a range of genres.  His album De-Lovely, for the eponymous movie on the life of Cole Porter, with Kevin Kline in the lead role, went platinum.  He has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford and Martin Scorsese.  He was a Composer-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and collaborated with renowned artists such as Alanis Morissette, Elvis Costello, and Renée Fleming.  Stephen wrote and produced the award-winning short movie A Boy, a Man and a Kite (https://vimeo.com/312631183), in which a comatose man explores his boyhood trauma at an English boarding school.
Hear Stephen tell us about the beginnings of his musical career at Carmel, how true to life his movie is, his role in the conviction of Trevor Bolton, and the redemptive power of yoga classes with Demi Moore.Thank you, Stephen Endelman, for turning us again to Carmel days!
 
Dedication: at Stephen’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of his former classmate and friend Stephen Rister, who died 11 years ago in his sleep of a heart attack in his home in Bushey.
 
Personal mentions in this episode:
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (Headmaster)
Keith Pusey (Music)
Rabbi Eric Hoffman (Jewish Studies)
Anthony Barr Taylor (Biology)
Ron Evans (Mathematics)
Geoff Lebens (English)
Trevor Bolton (Housemaster)
Mark Granat
Simon Liebens
Paul Taylor
David Taylor
Adam Samuelson
David Wolfe
Ricky Green
Stephen Corrick
Jacques Safra
Stephen Rister
Kati Barr Taylor
 
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To tell us your story, email us at doronjunger@yahoo.com/jill@jilkenton.co.uk

Joining Jill and Doron on the 16th episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is David Dangoor (1961-67), a British businessman and philanthropist, whose family foundation for some years immediately after the school closed owned the Carmel estate.
 
David grew up in a prominent Jewish family in Baghdad in Iraq.  After studying physics at Imperial College, he became a systems engineer at IBM, and then joined his father, the late Sir Naim Dangoor, in starting a property business.  David is married to Judy with whom he has 2 daughters, 2 sons and lots of lovely grandchildren.  He was appointed a CBE, that is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to the community in Greater London.  He financed a documentary about the Jews of Iraq, “Remember Baghdad”, which is available on Netflix in the UK.
 
Hear David talk about growing up in Baghdad’s Jewish community, how coloring in pictures of pipettes at Carmel ignited in him a passion for physics, the time he witnessed an armed robbery in the Headmaster’s study, and the 9 years he owned the Carmel College estate.
 
Thank you, David Dangoor, for turning us again to Carmel days!
 
Dedication: at David's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of his classmate Marcus Fachler, later known as Rabbi Mordechai Fachler, who died tragically in South Africa in 2010 after a prolonged coma following a brain haemorrhage.
 
Personal mentions in this episode:
Rabbi Dr. Kopul Rosen (Founder, Headmaster)
Dr. David Stamler (Headmaster)
Philip Skelker (Headmaster)
Mr. Godfrey (Kitchen staff)
Mrs. Godfrey (Kitchen staff)
Tim Healey (History & Cricket)
Margaret Healey (Matron & Housemother)
Dr. Howarth (Physics)
John Bunney (Physics)
Helmut Dan Schmidt (Economics)
Jimmy Shamash
David Shamash
Abraham Levy
Dana (Shaul) Malmstrom
Peter Rhodes
Jonathan Abrahams
Lawrence Cresner
Marcus Fachler
Brahm Norwich
Gabriel Lee
Peter Healey
Robert Finestone
Henry Milner
Spencer Batiste
Morris Bright MBE
Harry Rappaport
Jonathan Finlay
Yohai Salem
Robin Ferner
Anthony Ferner
Avrom Sherr
 
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To tell us your story, email us at doronjunger@yahoo.com / jill@jillkenton.co.uk

Joining Jill and Doron on the 15th episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is Ashley Perry (1986-92), a senior Israeli political and communications consultant and policy and election campaign advisor.
 
Ashley consults for and advises international leaders, governments and companies globally.  He is currently an external advisor to Israel's Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Agriculture and others in the Israeli government.  He was named one of the top 50 Olim from the UK who have made a significant contribution to help shape the State of Israel, and regularly appears on the podcast 'Israel Insider'.  Ashley lives in Efrat in Israel.


Hear Ashley talk about nocturnal wheelchair parkour contests in Newnham, his record-setting 3 hours-long Shabbat afternoon romance, how his world has changed since October 7, and speculate about one of Carmel’s great abiding mysteries: whatsoever is a ‘Reverend’?.
 
Thank you, Ashley Perry, for turning us again to Carmel days!
 
Dedication: at Ashley's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Reverend Mordechai “Motti” Berkovitch, who taught Jewish Studies at Carmel from 1984 to 1990, and lived in Ashley’s neighborhood in Efrat in Israel; he passed away earlier this year.
 
Personal mentions in this episode:
Rabbi Rony Greenberg (Jewish Studies)
Reverend Mordechai Berkovitch (Jewish Studies)
Fred Zartz (Jewish History; cricket coach)
Adam Perry
Marc Katz
Emma Katz
Edward Cowen
Ted (Edmond) Shama
Joanna (Marcus) Landau
Simon Jackson
Ian Harris
 
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To tell us your story, email us at doronjunger@yahoo.com / jill@jillkenton.co.uk
 

Joining Jill and Doron on the 14th episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is Philip Powell (1962-71), our first guest (save Jeremy Rosen) to also have been a Carmel parent, when his daughter Lauren became a pupil in the ‘90s.
Philip and his younger brother Jonathan, also a Carmel alumnus, worked in ladies fashion accessories.  Philip now lives in Redbridge, Essex with Stephanie, his wife of 18 years.
Hear Philip talk about girls, girls, girls arriving at Carmel, meeting Maggie Thatcher on Prize Day, scoring tickets to watch Benfica play at Wembley with Mr. Barr Taylor, and how Mrs. Evans made him blush.
 
Thank you, Philip Powell, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at Philip's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of his favorite teacher, Anthony Barr Taylor, who in his multiple roles as biology teacher, coach of girls’ field hockey and of horse-riding, as well as one-time housemaster, had an outsize impact on Carmel, where he taught from 1953 to 1995.
 
Personal mentions in this episode:
Dr. David Stamler (Headmaster)
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (Headmaster)
Philip Skelker (Headmaster)
Anthony Barr Taylor (Biology)
Mary Evans (Mathematics)
Hugh Oakley (Spanish)
Mrs. Pennistone
Jonathan Powell
Peter Moore
Steven Graham
Daniel Gance
Mark Magidson
Marylin Evans
Lauren (Powell) Franks
Gary Casson
Susan Seroya
Paul Bond
Lee Berger
Mitchell Landau
 
Feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you liked about this episode, and rate us on your favorite podcast platform 🙏🏼
 
To tell us your story, email us at doronjunger@yahoo.com / jill@jillkenton.co.uk