Rachel & Joe Feuerstein (1981-87/88)

12-04-2024 • 1 h 3 minutes

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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