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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: This Canadian clown channels Judaism to cheer up hospital patients
Description: Naomi Krajden didn't go to medical school to become a front-line health care worker, even though many of her family members work in the field. Her father and brother are doctors; her mother is a nurse. So it wasn't surprising that the Toronto-born Jewish artist gravitated toward the medical world.
Krajden—a trained theatre actor, singer and dancer—is the only Jewish pro therapeutic clown in Canada. If you've seen the movie Patch Adams, it's similar to what she does. Now living in Montreal, her in-person therapeutic clown visits, which took her to hospitals and nursing homes arou...