In this bonus content episode, our Season 2 finale, after releasing 36 episodes with former pupils, we are giving the word to former teachers! We invited Carmel teachers to record their greetings to our listeners. Let's hear how well they completed their assignment!!

Personal mentions in this episode:

• Philip Skelker

• Graham Mobbs

• Paul Shaviv

• Alastair Falk

• Chana Greenberg

• Rabbi Rony Greenberg

Thank you to all who participated; A+ all around!!

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Joining Jill and Doron on the 36th episode of the podcast, the eighteenth and final of our second season, to tell us his story is British journalist Matthew Engel, who attended Carmel College from 1959 to '69, preceded by his two older brothers.

Matthew attended Manchester University and became a journalist, mostly for The Guardian and later the Financial Times. Initially, he specialized in sport, and has covered over 70 different sports, from cricket and football to tiddlywinks and underwater hockey. Over the years, he reported on just about everything, including the First Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 - and from all seven continents, the South Pole included. He lives on a farm in rural Herefordshire, where he is now a county councillor, with his publisher wife Hilary of 34 years, their daughter Vika, and their two dogs, three cats and three horses.

Hear Matthew talk about Carmel's horsehair mattresses; listening to 'Around the Horn'; 'what's wrong with the world today'; smoking in the pillbox; becoming known as the school cynic; an attempt to bribe the school barber; Carmel's moment in The Guardian's newsroom; the golden age of newspapers; and the most important piece he ever wrote, "The Day the Sky fell in" (see https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/dec/03/familyandrelationships.health).

Thank you, Matthew Engel, for turning us again to Carmel days!

Personal mentions in this episode:

• Rabbi Dr. Kopul Rosen (Founder & Principal)

• David Stamler (Headmaster)

• Philip Skelker (Headmaster)

• Joshua Gabay (French & Junior School Headmaster)

• June Glover (Primary Department)

• Isabel Craston (English & EFL)

• Mr. P.J. Hobson (English)

• Ron Evans (Mathematics)

• Anthony Engel

• Richard Engel

• Kenneth Kaufman

• Harvey Kaufman

• Avrom Sherr

• Michael Sternberg

• Simon Serota

• David Robson

• Simon Silver

• Steven Fogel

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Joining Jill and Doron on the 35th episode of the podcast, the seventeenth and penultimate of our second season, to tell us their story are Dr. Alison Fisch Katz and Sally Green Wallis, BFFs - for half a century and counting - from the northern provinces of England who attended Carmel from 1973 to 1980.

Alison Fisch grew up in Leeds. She studied for her BA and MA in English Literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel and completed her PhD at the University of Leeds. A former lecturer at Bar Ilan and the Open University in Israel, she eventually became Senior Lecturer and Head of the Languages and General Studies Department at the Azrieli College of Engineering in Jerusalem - a position she has held for 14 years. Alongside her academic career, Alison has developed a business as a Personal and Rehab Fitness Trainer. She lives in Ra'anana and has been married to Israeli-born Geri for almost 40 years. They have two grown sons, Tomer and Assaf.

Sally Green grew up in Grimsby. After Carmel, she briefly attended Manchester Polytechnic before moving to London with a passion to work in travel, which is how she met her husband of 38 years, Howard. She is now a director and shareholder at a bespoke travel agency in Radlett. Sally has three children in their thirties, and four grandchildren, three of whom were born in a five month span earlier this year.

Hear Alison and Sally talk about the kashrut of sausage rolls, the evolution of their northern accents, the letter that nearly undid their friendship, the playwright who attended his play's opening night at Carmel, meeting the late Ted Heath, and how they maintained their bond over 50 years.

Thank you, Dr. Alison Fisch Katz and Sally Green Wallis, for turning us again to Carmel days!

Dedication: at Alison's and Sally's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of Sally's late brother Michael Green, who inspired her to go to Carmel, and was a pupil himself from 1967 to 1973. He worked in real estate, and was married with one daughter. Sadly, he passed away from a heart attack in 2012 at the age of 53 in Watford Hospital.

Personal mentions in this episode:

• Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (Headmaster)

• Trevor Bolton (French & Housemaster)

• Keith Pusey (Music)

• Helmut Dan Schmidt (History & Economics)

• Anthony Barr Taylor (Biology)

• Dr. John Addis (History)

• Yoel Silver (Computer Studies & Ridgeway Housemaster)

• Mike O'Connor (Art)

• Alastair Falk (English & Drama)

• Ron Evans (Mathematics)

• Mary Evans (Mathematics)

• Dr. Mendel Bloch (Jewish Studies & English)

• Geoff Lebens (English literature)

• Miss Haig (Housemistress)

• Alex Gerlis

• Jeremy Gerlis

• Andrea Samuels Walker

• Tanya Samuels

• Nigel Fisch

• Aliza Reger

• Simon Myerson

• Graham Harris

• Ruth Collins

• Claire Rosenberg

• Rosalind

• Susan Bruckner

• Michele Weissberg

• Nassimah Reynolds

• Daniel Reynolds

• David Reynolds

• Alan Bloom

• Clive Cass

• Kati Barr Taylor

• Catherine Addis

• Yoram Ezri

• Shelly Simons Schwarzmann

• Aviva Elias

• Robert Khalastchy

• Lisa Morrow

• Stephen Corrick

• Debra Corrick Davis

• Paul Corrick

• Nicky Richmond

• Sheba

• Sonya LeJeune

• Ricky Green

• Graham Dullop

• Adam Jackson

• Loni Saban

• Philippe Weissberg

• Moni Solti

• Leila Djemal

• Moti Taler

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