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circus
Ringling Bros. Circus has been a Feld family affair for three generations
Tess Cutler
July 21, 2016
As a trapeze artist flipped overhead, a mother in the audience gasped, squeezing her 3-month-old infant tight.
Letters to the editor: Iron Dome, Tesla crash, PETA and more
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
David Suissa’s article was terrific, and I pray for his daughter’s safety (“Israel Needs an Irony Dome,” July 18).
Learning to juggle life skills through Circus Arts
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2014
Watching spunky Kaia Susman, 9, stretching her legs in a wide straddle and then bending forward until her body was completely flat on the floor conjures images of a super-stretchy Gumby toy.
Elfman circles back to the circus
Jewish Journal
September 7, 2011
Danny Elfman is a huge success, but he doesn\’t want you to know it. Humility is a hard thing to hang your hat on when you\’ve accumulated four Academy Award nominations, taken home a Grammy, and an Emmy and written some of the most popular theme music of all time, notably for “The Simpsons” and his many collaboration with filmmaker Tim Burton. But that doesn\’t stop Elfman from trying.
The soldier in the center ring
Jewish Journal
August 7, 2008
As far as he has traveled, from Israel to Southern California, Ben-Binyamin has come an even greater distance in recent years in his transition from the IDF to the circus, a change he refers to as \”extreme.\”
Clowning Around
Hank Rosenfeld
July 27, 2006
Some of my best friends are clowns. I know that sounds like a line, but it\’s true. Jewish clowns, too. Back East, there\’s Dr. Meatloaf and Dr. Noodle (aka Stephen Ringold and Ilene Weiss). They\’re in the CCU, the \”Clown Care Unit\” of the Big Apple Circus. Like badchens (Yiddish for clown) for the broken up, they play hospitals instead of weddings.
Singles – Painted Clowns
Teresa Strasser
June 29, 2006
I\’m drinking at a bar called the Dirty Horse on Hollywood Boulevard. Well, that\’s not the real name, but I never got a look at the sign and that name seemed right.
Tightrope of Life
Rabbi Moshe D. Bryski
October 6, 2005
In the days of communism\’s fierce grip on the Soviet Union, there lived a Chasidic Jew named Reb Mendel Futerfas. Reb Mendel repeatedly put his life at risk with his efforts to promote Jewish education behind the Iron Curtain and for some 14 years was incarcerated in prisons and labor camps for his \”crime\” of teaching Torah.
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