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| Emily Cohen (1983-85) | 20 Sep 2024 | 01:04:59 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 28th episode, the tenth of our second season, to tell us her story is British entrepreneur and Israel warrior Emily Cohen.
Hear Emily talk about her highly irregular Carmel induction, ‘mansara’ living, impersonating MeatLoaf on Purim, her suspension for being the beacon of tuck, ‘Earth, Wind & Fire’ 4ever, a very cheeky birthday card, showing Arnold around Tel Aviv, Kylie Minogue's pouty red lip gloss, fielding an unexpected call from Sir Philip Green, and life as an Israel warrior.
Thank you, Emily Cohen, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Adrian Agassi (1972-82) | 06 Sep 2024 | 01:01:03 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 27th episode, the 9th of our second season, to tell us his story is Adrian Agassi, better known as Agi. Agi studied Law at Kings College London and was called to the Bar in 1986, the same year he made Aliyah. In 1989, after receiving a Masters degree in Public International Law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he was called to the Israel Bar and began a 20 year-long legal career in the IDF, rising to military judge with the rank of Major, presiding over land disputes in Judea and Samaria and anti-terrorism cases. On retiring from the IDF at the age of 44, he went to study at Aish HaTorah Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which led him to write numerical kabbalistic commentaries to the Torah and five megillot which appear on his web site (https://sites.google.com/site/shem18hai). In 2013 he established a monthly Kollel for Kabbalah studies on Mount Zion in Jerusalem to pursue his passion for Jewish mysticism leading to the final redemption of Israel. But for now he owns a lottery concession in Nahariya and dabbles in refurbishing classic cars. He and his wife Hilary have six children. Hear Agi talk about saying kaddish for his father at Carmel, playing the judge in the 1982 production of Trial by Jury, the meaning of true love, smashing a car into Newnham House, life as an evacuee, ‘transvestite metals’, and why he originally failed his Jewish Studies O-Level. Thank you, Adrian Agassi, for turning us again to Carmel days! Dedication: at Agi’s request, this episode is dedicated to Reverend and Mrs. Segal, of beloved memory, who in the 1970s were resident Orthodox Jewish Studies teaching staff at Carmel, committed to Jewish leadership of the school. In their staff house, the Segals often hosted kiddush after shul services on Shabbat. Prior to Carmel, Reverend Segal had been a Minister of Religion in Liverpool. After Carmel, the Segals retired to Netanya, Israel.
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| Peter Rhodes OBE (1962-66) | 23 Aug 2024 | 01:02:48 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the 26th episode of the podcast, to tell us his story is British businessman Peter Rhodes.
Peter was raised in Kensington where he attended St. David’s prep school before arriving at Carmel, sight unseen. After ‘A‘ levels, he had a diverse career in retail, advertising and exhibitions, during which he worked at the Jewish Chronicle, M&S and the New Musical Express. In 2007, the Queen awarded him an OBE for services to British business interests in France based on his thirty years at the helm of Reed Midem, organising international fairs - mostly in Cannes - for the music, TV and property industries. Now retired, Peter is an active BAFTA member and sells sculptures and ceramics created by Sue, his wife of 47 years, with whom he has a daughter.
Hear Peter talk about in what unexpected way Carmel bested Oxford, Mr Healey’s distinctive French accent, racing from Reading to Mongewell Park in Mr. Coombe’s Austin Healey, King Lear in the amphitheater, and his time in ‘The Mad Hatters’.
Thank you, Peter Rhodes, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at Peter's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. David Stamler, Headmaster of Carmel College from 1961 to ‘71, who in December 2021 died in New York, aged 93.
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| Ilana Brandwain-Chodos (1990-95) | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:38:43 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 25th episode, the 7th of our second season, to tell us her story is our second Belgian guest, fine jeweler and fellow podcaster Ilana Brandwain.
Ilana was born in Antwerp to Ukrainian parents. She studied French and Russian at Queen Mary University in London, followed by Chinese medicine. Upon returning to Antwerp, she founded a venture that markets the world’s rarest yellow diamond, the Zimmi, named after the region in Sierra Leone in which it is mined. Ilana works right in the heart of Antwerp’s Diamond Centre, from where her podcast grants listeners an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse of the diamond business. She co-founded the world’s only women's group in the historically male-dominated diamond industry. She is married to our dear friend and Carmel contemporary, Elie Chodos, with whom she has two sons.
Hear Ilana talk about how she took herself to Carmel, her father’s perilous professional life, the bedrock her Carmel friends became, starting her own business, and how Carmel broke the ice on a ‘beshert’ first date.
Thank you, Ilana Brandwain, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Jack “Yanky” Fachler (1957-64) | 26 Jul 2024 | 00:50:21 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 24th episode, the sixth of our second season, to tell us his story is our first guest from Ireland, author Yanky Fachler, known as Jacky at Carmel College, where he was Head Boy. Following two years at Yeshiva in Israel, Yanky studied Psychology, Sociology and Economics at Brunel, where he also earned a Masters degree in Sociology, before returning to Israel. For two decades he then worked with a multitude of Israeli advertising agencies as an English language freelance copywriter until he moved to Ireland to coach corporate executives in communication. He now lives with his wife in a small town between Belfast and Dublin, and chairs the Jewish Historical Society of Ireland. Yanky is a regular contributor to the ‘Word in Edgeways’ broadcast, and a writer. In addition to his memoirs (“Yanky’s Doodles”), he wrote a book on the Jewish community of Letchworth, in which he grew up, and since October 7th, emails out several times a week a morale-boosting summary of the relevant news. His two sons live in California and Israel, respectively. Hear Yanky talk about why’ Yanky’ became ‘Jacky’, becoming Head Boy, his act of civil disobedience in the Carmel synagogue, and beating The Beatles to record at Abbey Road Studios.
Thank you, Yanky Jack Fachler, for turning us again to Carmel days!
The chapter on Carmel College from Yanky’s memoirs can be found here: https://www.carmelcollege.co.uk/the-road-from-carmel-podcast
Dedication: at Yanky’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Yisrael Alexander, his former teacher as well as father of his friend and Carmel contemporary, David Alexander. Born in Berlin, the son of a rabbi, Yisrael was - at the age of 15, in 1938, following Kristallnacht - deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp for belonging to a Zionist youth movement, but managed to escape the Shoah on a Kindertransport to England, where he met not only his future wife, Chaya, but also Yanky’s parents. Around the time of the State of Israel’s founding, Yisrael and Chaya joined a kibbutz. In the mid-fifties, Yisrael and his young family came to Carmel, where he taught Jewish Studies, Hebrew and German. He passed away in Israel in 2005 at the age of 84.
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| Alain Jeger (1981-83) | 12 Jul 2024 | 01:01:07 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 23rd episode, the fifth of our second season, to tell us his story is our first Belgian guest, Alain Jeger.
Alain grew up in Antwerp, and prior to Carmel, went to the renowned Tachkemoni school. After Carmel, he studied at the European Business School in London. For the past 15 years he has been the Managing Director of an Environmental Safety group that offers enterprise clients testing, inspection and control services. He lives in Brussels, and is the father of two daughters, aged 32 and 28.
Hear Alain talk about his boozy encounter with a tzadik, becoming ‘Head of Detention’, getting in his 10,000 steps-a-day Carmel style, whom he surprisingly plied with gefilte fish, making ‘apple pies’, and nocturnal outings to Oxford.
Thank you, Alain Jeger, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at Alain’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of David Jones, the coach of the Carmel College First XI football team and an English teacher. Many of us will also fondly remember Jones as the Mongewell Housemaster. He was originally from Wales, fought in the Korean War when he was called up for National Service, and played league football professionally as a goalkeeper for Reading FC. He lived out his years in a care home, and sadly passed away in 2022 at the age of 90.
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| Suzie Greene Tedesco (1971-78) | 28 Jun 2024 | 00:38:25 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 22nd episode, the fourth of our second season, to tell us her story, is film and commercials producer Suzie Greene-Tedesco, who attended Carmel College from 1971 to ‘78, the thirty-third girl to do so. Suzie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Denny and two kids. She completed her education at St. Godric’s Secretarial College in Hampstead, and began her entertainment career as assistant to London talent agent Duncan Heath before moving on to work behind the scenes on feature films and TV commercials. Suzie produced the award-winning music documentary “The Wrecking Crew”, which her husband directed. And - on a personal note, the one color Suzie has never worn since the day she left Carmel College is…you guessed it!...purple. Hear Suzie talk about a long lost and recently retrieved conspiratorial letter, her father accompanying King Charles on his royal visit to Carmel, her starring movie role as “Madame Verte”, her brief brush with criminality, and why her father wanted matron fired. Thank you, Suzie Greene Tedesco, for turning us again to Carmel days! Dedication: at Suzie’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of her former teacher Isabel Craston, who instilled in Suzie a love for books and reading. Mrs Craston, originally from Newcastle, was in charge of the primary department, and once Carmel discontinued the youngest classes, taught English as a Foreign Language.
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| Steven Fogel (1963-69) | 14 Jun 2024 | 00:47:47 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 21st episode, the third of our second season, to tell us his story, is Steven Fogel, a solicitor whose practice at the large international law firm, Dechert, which he led, focused on commercial property.
Steven attended Carmel from 1963 to ‘69, and then read law at King’s College in London. He wrote several textbooks and drafted legislation. He now acts as a board member, trustee or advisor of a museum and various groups dedicated to education, music and dance. He produces the occasional short film or story, and just published the extended essay “Carmel - the movie”, which can be found here: https://www.carmelcollege.co.uk/the-road-from-carmel-podcast.
Hear Steven talk about Sir Philip Green teaching him to guard his blancmange, a Purim skit gone awry, and what scent from Carmel days still evokes in him fear, loathing and respect.
Thank you, Steven Fogel, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Mark Sabah (1990-95) | 31 May 2024 | 00:52:29 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on our 20th episode, the second of our second season, to tell us his story, is Mark Sabah, an international political activist and lobbyist, and former Head Boy at Carmel.
Mark was born in London and raised in Africa as the son of a diplomat for the European Union. After Carmel, he studied Politics and Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, and eventually became a public affairs advocate for human rights against authoritarian regimes. He is credited with the passage of the Magnitsky Law, which is now carried in 35 countries. Currently he is a Director of a foundation that promotes freedom in Hong Kong. His work has made him a persona non grata in both Russia and China - but he is most welcome here, on “The Road from Carmel” podcast.
Hear Mark talk about keeping kosher in Africa, Jewish discus-throwing, becoming Head Boy, being chased on the North Circular, and how he came to work for Lord Jeffrey Archer.
Thank you, Mark Sabah, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at Mark’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Ari Tjarden, one of Mark’s first friends at Carmel and former table tennis partner, who passed away in Berlin in 1991 at the age of 14 from a lung disease.
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| Rabbi David Rosen KSG CBE (1958-67) | 17 May 2024 | 00:46:44 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the 19th episode of the podcast, the first of our second season, to tell us his story, is Rabbi David Rosen (1958-67), the youngest son of Carmel College’s founders Rabbi Dr. Kopul and Bella Rosen, and brother of Rabbis Jeremy Rosen and the late Micky Rosen.
David, known to his old school friends as Buster, is currently Special Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. He is the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and previously Senior Rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation in South Africa during the apartheid era. For his interfaith work, he has received a papal knighthood and was named a Commander of the British Empire by the late Queen Elizabeth II. David lives in Jerusalem and is married to Sharon, with whom he has three children and seven grandchildren, ranging in age from 2 to 23.
Hear David talk about sibling rivalries, playing cricket with the Chief Rabbi, hearing Danny Kaye sing Hebrew in Wallingford on Faye Day, and his IDF service.
Thank you, Rabbi David Rosen, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at David's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of his late mother Bella Rosen, who made often unrecognized yet invaluable contributions to Carmel College as its co-founder. In the school's early years, she shouldered responsibilities as Catering Manager and Household Supervisor. During one of the institution's dire financial periods she selflessly pawned her engagement ring to ensure breakfast for the school's boys, an act that resonates with profound dedication. She later joined the Board of Governors. Sadly, Bella Rosen passed away in Jerusalem in 1999.
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| Rabbi David Rosen KSG CBE on Faith & Interfaith | 17 May 2024 | 00:20:15 | |
In this bonus content episode, Rabbi David Rosen discusses the evolution of his interfaith work and its Carmel connections.
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| Season 1 Finale | 25 Apr 2024 | 00:29:56 | |
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!
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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 🙏🏼
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| Rachel & Joe Feuerstein (1981-87/88) | 12 Apr 2024 | 01:03:52 | |
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.
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| Stephen Endelman (1973-77) | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:37:00 | |
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. 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.
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| David Dangoor CBE (1961-67) | 15 Mar 2024 | 01:05:04 | |
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.
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| Ashley Perry (1986-92) | 06 Mar 2024 | 00:36:33 | |
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.
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| Philip Powell (1962-71) | 29 Feb 2024 | 00:29:58 | |
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.
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| David Sheldon (1953-63) | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:56:08 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the 13th episode of the podcast (I guess you could call this our Bar Mitzvah episode), to tell us his story, is David Sheldon, pupil number 269, who attended Carmel College for a full decade, from 1953 to 1963, arriving on the very day - October 5th - that the school first assumed its place on the campus at Mongewell Park in Wallingford. David has worked in the retail industry for nearly 60 years since his early days at Marks & Spencer, most recently as a strategic retail advisor. He lives in Old Basing in Hampshire with Pauline, his wife of nearly 50 years. Hear David talk about why he was nicknamed ‘little monkey’, Kopul firing the cook, the place of corporal punishment at Carmel, the “juus in all the desks”, and meeting Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Thank you, David Sheldon, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at David’s request, this episode is dedicated to “Charlie” Marshall, PE instructor and rowing coach extraordinaire, who joined Carmel directly from his degree at Loughborough University, and went on from Carmel at the end of 1969 to retrain in order to teach deaf children in Brighton and Bradford.
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| Jill Kenton (1982-88) | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:55:51 | |
On this special Valentine’s Day episode, joining Doron and guest co-host extraordinaire Dana Shauli Malmstrom (1981-85), to tell us her story - on her birthday - is the inimitable Jill Kenton, who many old Carmelis around the world know of course as Doron’s regular co-host on the ‘Road from Carmel’ podcast and as the indefatigable organizer of multiple Carmel reunions. Jill is a professional voice-over artist with a global clientele, and the new face of ‘Shapewear’ on QVC UK, and was the marketing director of her family’s brand, Rigby & Peller, for over two decades in the UK and New York. Hear Jill tell us about lunch with Princess Diana, recording the audiobook version of her mom’s book (“Storm in a D Cup”), a Carmel version of “The Escape from Alcatraz” gone wrong, the object of her affection on her first Valentine’s Day at Carmel (apparently he was the very next best thing to Barry Manilow), and select other highlights of her romantic life in Mongewell Park (we keep it PG-rated). Happy Birthday, Jill! Thank you, Jill, for turning us again to Carmel days! Thank you also to Dana for stepping in as Doron’s co-host to turn the spotlight on Jill. Dedication: at Jill’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Clyde Osols, Jill’s first boyfriend and our good friend from Carmel days, who tragically passed away in Berlin in 2016.
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| Jack Mizel (1971-82) | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:41:23 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the eleventh episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is Jack Mizel, who may well have been the pupil to spend more years at Carmel than any other, from 1971 to 1982.
Jack has been in the publishing and advertising business for over 35 years. He was born in Hackney, in the East End of London, and now lives in Bourne End with his wife Sarah and their two daughters, in addition to whom he has two adult children. Among his passions are Bridge and Tottenham Hotspur.
Hear Jack describe growing up in London’s East End, coming to Carmel at age 7, how a biology lesson on ‘fauna and flora’ had him rolling on the floor, being cheated out of a Jewish Studies A-Level, Carmel’s special ‘Buy 10 Get 1 Free’ deal, how not to interview for a job at M&S, and the unlikely story of how he became a long-distance runner.
Thank you, Jack, for turning us again to Carmel days!
Dedication: at Jack’s request, this episode is dedicated to both Rabbi Jeremy Rosen and the memory of Jack’s Carmel contemporary and very close friend Adam Science (better known as “Shnauze”), who sadly died in a car accident in his twenties.
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| Joanna (Marcus) Landau (1989-91) | 02 Feb 2024 | 00:43:40 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the tenth episode of the podcast (yes, we’ve reached the double digits, darlings!), to tell us her story, is our first guest from Israel, Joanna Landau, née Marcus (1989-91). Joanna is a Cambridge-educated lawyer and entrepreneur who is deeply dedicated to positively changing how the world feels about Israel. In 2011, she founded Vibe Israel, a Tel-Avivian NGO that generated over a billion positive mentions about Israel online. In 2017, Forbes named her one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Israel. Last year, Joanna co-authored the best-selling book “Ethical Tribing”, which presents a strategy for reclaiming global appeal for Israel, especially among Millennials and Gen Z. Since October 7, Joanna has been consulting Israeli government offices and Jewish organizations abroad on how to effectively counter the anti-Israel narrative on social media and offline. Joanna lives in Tel Aviv with her husband, 3 children - one of whom is a combat soldier - and 2 dogs. Hear Joanna talk about what made her “too English for Israel”, a memorable milk shower in Carmel’s dining hall, her brush with faith, and her important work branding Israel. Thank you, Joanna, for turning us again to Carmel days! Dedication: at Joanna’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of her beloved brother Daniel Marcus, who was a sixth-former at Carmel from 1988 to 1990, and sadly died in a private car accident in Israel at the age of 21.
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| Orly (Marx) Koppel (1979-83) | 26 Jan 2024 | 00:39:46 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the ninth episode of the podcast, to tell us her story, is our first guest from bonny Scotland, Orly (Marx) Koppel (1979-83). A graduate of Oxford University and a psychotherapist in Glasgow, Orly (in 2021) published the book "Roads without Shoulders", a look back at her work and life, including her time at Carmel. Orly’s younger sister Sharon was in Jill’s and Doron’s year. Hear Orly spill the beans on what her book says about Carmel, being pranked by her friends, and lift the veil on her romantic life (hint: she must really like boys who look good in purple & yellow). Thank you, Orly, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Bonus Content: Mystery Man | 25 Jan 2024 | 00:07:57 | |
In the most recent episode of the podcast, our guest Neil Myeroff (1958-63) recounted an occurrence of the annual football match between Carmel’s First XI and the school’s staff. In the particular match that Neil recalled, in 1960, something most unusual happened. In this bonus content episode, we bring you readings by a pair of special guests of the two published accounts of the events of that day. | |||
| Neil Myeroff (1958-63) | 18 Jan 2024 | 00:28:14 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the eighth episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is UK Property Consultant Neil Myeroff, who was a pupil at Carmel College from 1958 to 1963. Neil has vivid memories of his time at Carmel with - in his words - “the best reserved for the sports field rather than the classroom”. Old Carmelis may remember him for organizing several football and cricket matches on old Carmeli days against the school First XIs, and as the last captain of the Old Carmeli cricket team that played on Sundays during cricket season before it dissolved in 1973. As a consultant, Neil specializes in commercial and industrial property throughout the UK. Hear Neil tell us about what got ‘Comrade Myeroff’ into Kopul’s bad books, and the school’s celebrity football coach of the 1960 season. The episode also features a cameo appearance by another old Carmeli! Thank you, Neil, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Bonus content: Havdalah | 23 Dec 2023 | 00:03:11 | |
| Morris Bright MBE (1977-84) | 22 Dec 2023 | 01:07:05 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the seventh episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is film studio executive and author Morris Bright, a pupil at Carmel College from 1977 to 1984. Morris - known as Moishe in Carmel days - is a director at Elstree Studios, home to the first Star Wars movie and the Indiana Jones trilogies, and more recently the series The Crown. He is a member of BAFTA ( the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and was awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the late Queen's 2018 New Year's Honours by the monarch previously known as Prince Charles. Away from media, Morris is a Hertsemere borough councilor. Oh…and he is an avid Arsenal fan. Hear Morris tell us about the three life goals he set himself in Carmel, his contribution to the ancient custom of toveling, and what the nurse saw! Thank you, Morris, for turning us again to Carmel days! Dedication: at Morris’ request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of his dear friend Shelly Schwarzman, who started at Carmel as a fellow 11-year old on the very same day as Morris, and sadly died in Hendon in May of 2022. She is survived by four sons and her brothers Nimrod (also an Old Carmeli) and Jonathan.
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| Toby Tenenbaum (1994-97) | 15 Dec 2023 | 00:49:59 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the sixth episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is Toby Tenenbaum (1994-97), the school’s last Head Boy. Toby came to Carmel College by following in the footsteps of no less than 13 close and extended family members, including his sister Rayna, uncle Martin Kaye (who was our guest on the second episode of the podcast), and close cousins Howard Ronson (of blessed memory), Oliver Refson and Jeff Serlin, to name a few. Head Boy for a day (well, four months actually), Toby stayed at Carmel until its final day in 1997. For the past twenty years, he has lived in NYC, where he works at Super Soccer Stars. Hear Toby tell us about the school announcing its shock closure two weeks after he was appointed Head Boy (in March 1997), and the important role Carmel played in his personal academic redemption arc. Thank you, Toby, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Kenny Wax (1983-85) | 14 Dec 2023 | 00:37:13 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the fifth episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is a contemporary of ours, West End musical theater producer Kenny Wax, who was a pupil at Carmel from 1983 to 1984. Kenny Wax has been working in the West End since 1989, first as an usher, then as a flyman, a box office clerk, follow spot operator and on-stage crew before becoming a producer. Most recently, he is honoured to have completed a six-year term, initially as President and then as Vice President of the Society of London Theatre – the trade organisation for the West End Theatre industry. Over the Christmas season of 2023, as a Producer, he will have four productions running concurrently in the West End, with four shows touring the UK, productions on Norwegian Cruise Lines and Virgin Voyages, as well as five shows running in North America and one show on Broadway (the musical ‘Six’, which happens to be a favorite of Doron’s wife). Kenny was a pupil at Carmel from 1983 to 1985. Hear Kenny tell us about moving from a Manchester grammar school to a school with girls and football, how his time on HMS Pinafore launched him on a course headed for the stage, unrequited love, and what he owes to Sir Cameron MackIntosh.
Thank you, Kenny, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Zoe Waxman (1986-88) | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:24:27 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on this episode, to tell us her story, is our very first female guest on the podcast, Oxford University Professor Zoë Waxman (1986-88).
Zoë Waxman is the inaugural Professor of Holocaust History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of three books on the Holocaust, as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide. She was a pupil at Carmel from 1986 to 1988, and has a younger brother, Dov, who was also at Carmel. Hear Zoë explain how her time at Carmel inspired her to become a Holocaust scholar. You’ll also hear Jill divulge a secret of her one-time Friday afternoon beauty routine (it involves unconventional use of a hair dryer). Dedication: at Zoë’s request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Sharon Hannah Levine, Zoë’s best friend at Carmel, who sadly died in a car accident in the UK in December 1990.
Thank you, Zoë, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Ray Schinazi (1964-68) | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:40:07 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on this episode, to tell us his story, is Emory University Professor Ray Schinazi (1964-68). Raymond Schinazi is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for ViroScience and Cure at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Ray holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bath in England. He has authored over 600 peer-reviewed papers and 6 books, and holds over 100 issued US patents, which have resulted in 26 New Drug Applications (NDAs). He is best known for his pioneering work on drugs for HIV, Hepatitis and COVID, and founded several successful drug development companies. More than 94% of HIV patients in the US on combination therapy take at least one of the drugs he invented. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including – in 2018 - France’s highest civilian honor, the Légion D’honneur, for saving millions of lives globally. He has also been awarded three honorary doctoral degrees. He attended Carmel College from 1964 to 1968, where he did his O and A levels and was on the School’s basketball team. Hear Ray tell the inspiring story of how he came to Carmel as a 14 year-old Egyptian refugee (one of Carmel’s few Sephardic pupils at the time), reveal where in Carmel you could find crude oil, and name just a few of the 9 cities in which he now has a home. Dedication: this episode, at Ray’s request, is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. David Stamler, Headmaster of Carmel College from 1961 to 1971, who in December 2021 died in New York, aged 93.
Thank you, Ray, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Martin Kaye (1959-65) | 11 Dec 2023 | 00:41:29 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on this episode, to tell us his story, is former Carmel College student #660, Martin Kay (1959-65). Martin Kaye was born in 1947, a year before the founding of Carmel College. By his own description, life was great until one day in 1959 his family informed Martin that, come September, he was to be educated at one of England’s finest Jewish schools. Now retired, he claims to pass the days reflecting how different his life might have been had he spent his formative years elsewhere. Our intelligence on Martin paints a rather different picture, of a positively enthusiastic Old Carmeli. In any case, Martin was a pupil at Carmel from 1959 to 1964, during Kopul Rosen’s era as headmaster. He now lives in Hampstead Garden Suburb in North West London. Hear Martin talk about life at Carmel in the late 50s and early 60s; the fateful role the tuck shop played in his trajectory at the school; how Carmel may be responsible for antisemitism in England; and why there’s “no singing past Slough!”.
Thank you, Martin, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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| Bonus content: Jeremy Rosen (1949-60) | 09 Dec 2023 | 00:01:38 | |
The Carmel College school song, as composed by Rabbi Dr. Kopul Rosen (based on a Palmach hymn), and sung acapella by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen | |||
| Jeremy Rosen (1949-60) | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:40:25 | |
Joining Jill and Doron on the very first episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is none other than Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, who now lives in NYC and - in his own words - is “a Rabbi and a teacher”. The son of Carmel’s founder, the late Rabbi Kopul Rosen, Jeremy (known to many of us only ever as ‘Rabbi Rosen’) was a pupil at Carmel from 1949 to 1960, and the school’s third headmaster from 1971 to 1984. Hear Jeremy tell us (in his unmistakable voice and inimitable manner) his unique story of being a pupil at Carmel while the son of its founder, eventually following in his father’s footsteps as headmaster. He will also explain his association with one ‘‘Rookie” Rosen, and reveal the identity of the Green Lady. Incidentally, Jeremy in 2012 authored a memoir and comprehensive history of Carmel College, available on Amazon (here’s Doron’s review of it), and in 2019 officiated the wedding of Doron and his wife Ayelet in Miami (he did an excellent job).
Thank you, Jeremy, for turning us again to Carmel days!
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Dedication: we are dedicating this inaugural episode of the podcast to the memory of Debbie Shahar Troen Mathias, a former pupil at Carmel, who along with her husband was brutally murdered by Hamas during its attack on Israel on the Black Sabbath of October 7, 2023. They are survived by their son. May Debbie’s memory be for a blessing. Feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you liked about this episode. To tell us your story, email us at doronjunger@yahoo.com/jill@jilkenton.co.uk
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