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We did it! The latest Coronavirus social media challenge. Find a famous artwork and create an interpretation of it using objects and people in your home. Tha...

A copy of this blog appears on Oshi the clown's blog, too. I met a girl who was a ball of energy. She was electric. Bounced off walls. Constantly fidgeted. I...

In 2018-2019, my alter ego, Oshi, worked in schools as an educational clown. I blog about my experiences in the different schools from Oshi's perspective. Si...

What’s it like to brainstorm an idea and then make it happen? Amazing! The idea: A duet talk on failure. Yes, sharing a mic. And yes, focusing on failure. Be...

When I was interviewed for the Childhood Elsewhere documentary by journalist Zhou Yijun about education in Israel, I was filmed as my alter ego, Oshi the clow...

For just over one year, I have spent a few hours a week as an educational clown in schools around Israel. It doesn’t matter at which school I clown. I meet t...

Killer clowns are way more popular than their therapeutic counterparts. Although that shouldn’t be surprising. It’s been shown that people respond better to ...

Journalists have been called clowns. And when they are, it’s usually a negative remark. There's even something known as a "clown question" -- it mean an irre...

Two years ago, I crossed the lines of writing about the arts -- which I’ve done for over 20 years as a journalist -- to being in the world of the arts. At fi...

My 12-year-olds had a tweenager quarrel. He said. She said. It happened suddenly while we were sightseeing. On a hot day. In the sun. So, as any good parent w...

Sometimes you need an outsider to show you what's happening in your neighborhood. Journalist and filmmaker Zhou Yijun dedicates an episode of her education s...

Twice a week, I work as an educational clown. The rest of the week, I work as an innovation journalist and give talks on the culture of innovation. So, this ...

As an educational clown, adding humor to the school day impacts the openness to learning. Sometimes, being silly and offering another perspective is just tha...

Back-to-school season is underway. For teachers that means lesson plans, learning students’ names, teaching strategies, classroom guidance. For school counse...

Inevitably, at least once a day at school, Oshi is called a killer clown. Of course, take one look at Oshi – an educational therapeutic clown – and it is obv...

1. Therapeutic clowns work in schools at all levels – high school, middle school, elementary school. 2. Therapeutic clowns work with students in mainstream e...

Educational clowning is still making its mark in Israel. Of the thousands of schools in the country today, 11 have taken part in piloting educational clowns ...

Learning from failures is important. Being able to fail, to really embrace a failure, is even more significant if the experience is to be learned. I preach i...

The Passover holiday break ended... so, Oshi, went back to school for educational clowning. First day back after so much family time also meant the pupils fe...

“You’re so lucky. You get to do what you love,” a mother from my son’s class recently told me. We were sitting on beach chairs, finishing off our picnic lunc...