The Road from Carmel

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...

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 ind...

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...

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,...

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 gener...

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 y...

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...

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 ol...

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 Britis...

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 m...

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 h...

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...

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...

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...

The Carmel College school song, as composed by Rabbi Dr. Kopul Rosen (based on a Palmach hymn), and sung acapella by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen

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 t...