Born in New York City, New York, Feuerstein received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont in 1966[2] and a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in 1979.
[3] She was a teacher in the New York Public School System (Frances X. Hegarty Elementary School/Island Park)from 1966 to 1971.
[4] She then served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court Tenth Judicial District from 1994 to 1999,[4] and as an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Second Judicial Department from 1999 to 2003.
[5] Feuerstein and Elstein were believed to be the first mother-daughter judges in United States history.
[6] Feuerstein died on April 9, 2021, after being struck by a car driven by Nastasia Snape in a hit and run incident in Boca Raton, Florida.