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An email arrived in my inbox with a link to a new trailer for a documentary series on education. And there I am, in a cameo, as my alter ...

“You need to understand that you will fail in this class. You will be frustrated. And fail.” Okay, I thought. My other two course-mates a...

We did it! The latest Coronavirus social media challenge. Find a famous artwork and create an interpretation of it using objects and peop...

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. Co...

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

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, foc...

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

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 scho...

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

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

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 worl...

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,...

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

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 i...

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

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

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

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

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

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