avocation

Yehuda Braunstein wasn\’t one of those kids whose childhood aspirations (to be a fireman, astronaut, actor) never came true. Even though he studied to be a mathematician at MIT and earned a doctorate at UC San Diego, and he also became religiously observant — a ba\’al teshuvah, through Chabad. Now, at 39, he\’s a mathematician, an active Chabad member — and a clown.