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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....

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

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...

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

For the past five years, I’ve focused my public speaking on the innovation stories I’ve covered as a journalist. I love speaking to...

Here's what I learned this year as two of my kids moved from primary to middle schools: You need luck (which comes with a side order of...

“I don’t want to talk to you,” a sixth grader recently told me. “Good. Cuz I don’t want to talk to you either,” I replied. “I only want...

As soon as the kids saw me walking towards the school gate, they screamed my clown name: “Oshi! Oshi!” They had big news to share with...

“Leepa and Oshi are coming!!!!” one pupil shouted from the front gate of an elementary school. Within seconds, a gaggle of pupils from...

Coming up the stairs with one friend on each side, Nicole repeats in disgust how she is a magnet for bad luck. “Terrible luck. Bad luck....

Mr. Peacock introduces me to Barb. Well, it isn’t really an introduction. He points at her and says, “she’s the school drug dealer.” As...

Therapeutic clowning has fascinated me for years. As a journalist, I have the good fortune of meeting people from all walks of life....

The seventh graders go wild when they see us, a small crew of educational clowns, in their quad space. The 8th and 9th graders squeal,...

Puzzled looks, raised eyebrows, quizzical glances, and a smile. These are the reactions I get whenever I talk about my latest...

Educational clowning is a new kind of clown care and taking part in this developing arena is oh-so-much-fun. One recent afternoon,...

The new school year has begun in Israel, and as my third-grader and two sixth-graders headed back to their classrooms, I, too, returned...