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By Bobby Matalon Did you ever have a real friend? Well, Facebook tricks your mind. Facebook makes you believe that, if you get “Friended,” it means you got a friend. But, while you think you have friends, you don’t know them in real life. Maybe the reason you got friended is because the person who friended is…
By Sari Cattan In my opinion social media can affect friendships and relationships in both good and bad ways. In a negative way, social media gives you the wrong judgment of others and gives others the wrong judgment of you. If one of your friends doesn’t post a picture for your birthday, apparently it means that…
By Abie Shamah A good friend is someone who promises not to tell Loshon Hara and keeps it. If you do something embarrassing, he won’t tell anyone. This story was published in the Bar Mitzvah Magazine
By Jacob Rishty Imagine yourself being the leader or a captain of a group to work on a bridge for a class. Your team is: you, your best friend, another friend, and two other boys from your class. You want to be appreciated but not to be selfish. So, you try to include everyone’s hidden talents. But,…
By Shoshana Dweck Social media can ruin your individuality and yourself. You might see a picture on Instagram or Facebook or any other social media, and see a picture of someone that is shopping with all her friends and she gets so many likes just because what they are doing is cool and everyone wants to go…
By Samantha Chabot True friendship is one of the most important things in your life and it’s being ruined by social media. Social media allows friendship to be a click of a button. Someone could have a million ‘friends’ on Facebook, but, out of those, how many are genuine friends? Almost every kid and adult has either…
By Samantah Chabot There is nothing to fear but fear itself. If you have fear you won’t try new things; therefore not prospering,. You won’t get anywhere in your life. Because you were nervous during a test, you failed. If you are confident you will ace the test. You could bring a lot of pain…
By Bobby Tawil I have always been obsessed with Star Wars. Yoda has many wise things to day. As a wise, small green alien once said, “Fear is the path to the dark side.” This have been true in many cases and particular during my black belt test. I have been doing karate for…
By Joy Cattan In class, I am always afraid to ask the teacher a question that I don’t understand. I realized that without asking questions and raising my hand, I will not succeed in school. If you have that problem too, don’t think of what everyone thinks about you not understanding, raise your hand.
By Bobby Matalon I want to be a basketball player. But, I’m afraid that I’m going to miss. So, now if I want to be good, I have to practice. Every day I practiced 3 hours a day .Three months later I had my first game. I went out onto the court and took my…
By Joey Alhadef When you have an idea that you want to share, you should share it or your chance will pass. Your friends will move on to something else. If you think your idea is good, then share it even if you think your friends won’t like it. A lot of successful people have…
By Elliot Levy Many times in life, you may come to an opportunity where you can choose to either take a risk or be conservative. Numerous people may decide to be conservative and miss out on what they could have gotten. Whenever people do something and fail, they can learn from their mistakes. They can…
By Rachel Isayev One time in chemistry class, the teacher asked a question. It was an advanced question that was very difficult to answer. Therefore, very few raised hands to answer the question and those who did got it wrong. I was pretty sure I knew that answer, but my fear took control and I…
By Sondra Bukobza There once was a basketball player who always played offense because that’s what he played since he was little. One day, the coach asked him to play defense because the starting defense was injured. He took the risk and played defense instead of the usual offense. He continued playing defense and, three…
By Allegra Timsit In one of my classes, homework is worth 35% of my grade. I did everything. Then, at the last question I got stock. I couldn’t figure out the answer to the question. I tried and tried over and over more than 20 times. I didn’t want to give up an lose 35%…
By Mimi Levy It is extremely important to take chances. You have one life to live and it’s extremely important to live it to its fullest potential. Sometimes, it might be scary. But, if you don’t step out of your comfort zone, you can regret it for the rest of your life. For example, you…
By Batya Kairey I was in Great Adventure in the summer. My friends all wanted to go on a Kingda Ka, but I was scared. I was not scared that I would die, but that I was afraid of the heights. My friends tried to convince me to go on a Kingda Ka, but I…
Pamela Franco I have a goal to do well in school. There was big test that I studied so hard for. When I got it back I saw that I didn’t do as well as I thought I would. The next time I had a big test I just wanted to give up. My…
By Sion Dweck One day, Ikey went to his friend. His friend was popular and everybody was kind of forced to follow him. Ikey was different from everybody. Every morning, he would wake up very early and pray, put money in sedaka. When he went to his friend’s house, he was told he had to…
By Ezra Dweck When I was in the Dominican Republic, my dad was playing volleyball. After one guy left, they needed one more person to play. I was sitting on the side watching the game and, all of a sudden, my dad asked me if I wanted to play. At first I said no, but…
By Yola Haber You can miss many new friendship opportunities if you fear rejection. One thing that can prevent this fear is the thought of what can come from these friendships. It might be hard to ask people to hang out if you constantly think that you will always be rejected. How will you know…
By Emily Waingort Sometimes in class it is very scary to raise your hand and say what you think or feel. If you have something nice to say but fear what your peers or teacher will think, you miss out on letting your thoughts be heard. If you overcome your fear and raise your…
By Albert Rahmey When someone has an idea however they are too afraid to say it they miss out on opportunity to say something intelligent. If they idea had been a good idea that could’ve solved a problem or helped someone, they wouldn’t have known because they were too afraid to say it. If you…
By Gabe Saff In modern times people only do stuff to satisfy others instead of yourself. If somebody buys clothes they buy what they believe is cool to other people. You don’t hear about people that do the ordinary things. You hear about the people who stand out and try to make a statement….
By Jack Mizrahi A couple of years ago a plane landed in the Hudson River. The pilot and the crew didn’t know what to do. Then, one crew member thought they should try to evacuate the plane before they were all under the Hudson. The plane staff took a giant leap of faith and…
By Marcelle Setton Soccer tryout were tomorrow. Gloria didn’t want to try out because she knew she wasn’t going to get on the team. Gloria’s friend Patricia asked Gloria if she was trying out for soccer. Gloria said no because she isn’t very good. Patricia told Gloria to try something new and get out of…
By Sari Esses Many things can be lost when someone is faced with fear, but after these fears are overcame many things can be gained. An examples of fear that holds people back is the fear that a bully would find out if the victim told his parents on him and come back to bully…
By Marielle Tawil Because of fear of playing it too safe, you lose a lot of opportunities. If you stay in your comfort zone, you’ll never experience risk, you’ll never enjoy life. Be scared, but then overcome that fear and enjoy life. What do you gain by overcoming fear? Everything! Life! One time I…
By Abraham Goldman My goal this year was to win a playoff game in the Yeshivah Hockey League. I was in 8th grade and it was my last year on the middle school hockey team. We had an outstanding season. We had a home playoff game. There were 7 minutes left in a game…
By Joe Terzi I always wanted to be a singer. I know that I have the voice and motivation to achieve my goal as a professional singer. After school every day I would go to the music shop and have a retired singer tutor me. With each day I felt I was getting better…
By Claudette Robinson Rachel is about to get married but she has a fear of getting married. She fears that she is part of this commitment for life. But if she doesn’t get married now then she might not ever get married. She needs to overcome her fears.
By Sylvia Azar My goal in life is to be an author. I wrote a short story for school and no one liked it which made me very sad. I had to read it in school and everyone laughed at me. It was the most embarrassing moments of my life. However, I didn’t let…
By Rachel Gammal Social media can ruin a friendship. A girl has an Instagram and took a picture with her friend. Her friend looked gorgeous and wanted to post it but the girl looked not as pretty in it. So, the friend posted the picture but she cropped the girl out. To the girl, she looked…
By Joey Hamui A good friend wouldn’t use you for all the cool things you have in your house. They will come over because they like you. You could fight but you will always get back to being friends again. This story was published in the Bar Mitzvah Magazine
By Jack Shalom A good friend is someone who will stick up for you when you have a problem. If someone is embarrassed because he has a pimple on his face, a good friend won’t laugh and make fun of him. He will stick up for him and be on his side. A bad friend will…
By Stephanie Franco It is important to know who is a true friend and who isn’t. The feeling of having a true friend is comforting. Your real friend should respect you and accept you for who you are, not what you have or wear. On the other hand, a fake friend would judge you for what…
By Lilly Tawil A bad friend is a person that if you failed and she got 100, she pushes it into to you. This story was published in the Bar Mitzvah Magazine
By Olga Tawil Friendship through social media has changed over the years. Social media can lower your self esteem. When you see profiles with more followers than you, you feel less important. You feel bad that you aren’t as popular or don’t have as many friends. But, that’s not true. Most friends on social media are fake…
By Eddie Tawil When Michael got a new skateboard, he took a picture of it and he got a lot of likes. Michael really hates to skateboard but he only bought it to be popular. Michael was only acting to like it. Also, his friend told him that it was so cool. His friend also told him…
By Steven Sutton Peer pressure. It’s one of those times where every day is Purim, Purim with a social media. You see all of these people doing things that you don’t like, but do it for popularity. You see them doing things in their costumes with friends. You look around and say, “I want to be cool.”…