Meet Dush and Jonam, two medical clowns enlisted in the Home Front Rehabilitation Center, where soldiers in need of long-term mental health care are sent.
Leah Yerushalmi uses puns, word games, quizzes, and inventive stories – each week on a different theme – to distract the patients from their worries and pain.
Traditional yeshiva-style learning emphasizes that there are as many ways to understand the Bible as there are clowns in a tiny car, and Sacred Arts aims to uncover a few more.
The clown claimed to have had Hitler at his shows 13 times and he even wrote Christmas cards to him.
Well-trained medical clowns have a far more tangible impact on the healing process than just making people laugh, Israeli researchers found.
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