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 Raymond Dusi Social media strips your identity from you. You will post things that aren’t you. The second you post a bad picture or write something uncool on social media, your friends will leave you while your true friends will stay by your side. That’s why social media is bad for you. This story was published…
By Emily Pinhas Many people have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media. When someone posts a picture and gets many likes on it, then other, less popular, people try to do something like the popular people. When they copy the popular girls and don’t get the same amount of likes or comments, they start…
By Teddy Lozieh When you approach a friend and you are not that cool looking or strong, they might not like you. They even can bully and make fun of you. So, when you try to make a friend try to be confidence and be yourself and if you are not comfortable with them you…
By Mollie Grinberg Claire gulped in paralyzing fear. It was a cloudy Sunday morning. The day that her parents planned to go rock climbing in the southeast, far away from her hometown in Virginia. “Claire, are you ready?” Claire snapped out of her daze. “Yeah, I guess so…”Her mother bent down to comfort her child….
By Coral Cohen – Saban Maybe in school you don’t have so many friends so you would think that on instagram or Facebook and twitter you could change your whole personality based on what people like and don’t like. The difference between real friendship and fake friendship is that real friendship is to have a real connection…
By Eddie Catton Facebook affects the quality of friendship. Instead of doing things with your real friends you are just on Facebook. When people get a lot of “Likes” they feel like they accomplished something. Instead of going on instagram, Facebook all day long, talk to your real friends and catch up with them instead.
By Eddie Sorcher When a child has social media it changes their lives so extremely. They start wanting more, the start talking differently. Some even start to get different grades in school. It doesn’t let you focus on the real world.
By Moshe Lati When kids get left out they fell hurt. When your friend gets jealous, he will try to show off or to act cooler than you. When you post a picture on instagram and it gets 100 likes he’ll get jealous and try to get more likes. Also some kids get jealous when they see…
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 Gabriel Bildirici When you log on to any social media, you waste time on trying to keep up with the whole world rather than building and growing relationships. Real friends will be there for you if you need help. Noone posts on Facebook what’s real. As a result everyone thinks you are someone who you aren’t….
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 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 Sarah Turkieh There are many ways a person can prevent for not going on scary rides. One way is to hold the person’s hand and they can close their eyes. A girl who is afraid to go on a ride is taking a risk. Although when they go in a car it’s also a…
By Coral Cohen – Saban Last summer I was too afraid to skateboard. Then, I finally got on it and did it. Ever since, I know how to ride a skateboard. Before that, I was afraid that maybe I will get hurt or something. Life is all about taking chances, because you can’t go…
By Terry Sitt The most important thing in life is to take chances. One day I went on a trip to Great Adventures. I didn’t want to go on any of the scary rides. I was petrified of them. The second I got to Great Adventures a chill ran down my spine. When my friends…
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 Linda Benun Someone was getting married to a very nice and sweet lady. After all the parties and everything, two days before the wedding the bride called off the wedding. It broke her fiancé’s heart. His family had to calm him down. After that happened, he was always afraid to get into another relationship…
By Danielle Ammar Fear. What is it? It’s that voice in your head that doesn’t want you to challenge yourself or doesn’t want you to be yourself. For example, anorexic people just get skinnier and skinnier. Why? Some people might ask how they can starve themselves when they were beautiful already and how can they…
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 Jenny Yedid I had a wedding where my 9 year old sister marched. My mom bought her a dress that was stunning but was different and unique. It was not the same style that everybody wears. Because of this reason, she was scared and nervous to wear it. My whole family kept on encouraging…
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 Rebecca Sutton Fear is something that always stays unless you’re able to overcome. For example, doing something different than your friends may sound scary but, once you do it, if they’re true friends, they will support you and accept you. Not doing it, letting fear take over, will make you be always scared and…
By Joseph Sultan You’re playing a sport and your friends are counting on you because you’re the best on the team. Never feel pressured because when you’re pressured it is more likely to fail. So, just be yourself, take a deep breath and go play. This story was published in the Bar Mitzvah Magazine
By Jakey Tawil One time, I was playing basketball. There was 2 seconds left and we were down by one point. I had the ball wide open under the basket. I missed it and lost the game for my team. I felt really bad. I wanted to give up. But, I didn’t. The next…
By Aura Pinhas There is a boy named Abie. He wanted to be on the school’s football team. He was practicing with his friends and with a crowd watching. He missed a final goal by far. His friends told him, “You’ll never make the team. You can’t even do something as simple as kick…
By Robyn Chalme Marielle’s goal is to dance. All her life she has been dancing in competitions and recitals. She entered a dance competition and she messed up. Marielle feels like she let her team down. In 2 weeks she has another one. She has to decide 2 things: 1) if she should stop dancing…
By Chen Menashe Chances! If we don’t take them where would we be? Sarah studied all night until midnight for a history test. In the morning, her mother asked her the questions again. Sarah knew everything. She went to school to take the test. Sarah was shaking and sweating. The teacher gave her the test…
By Raphael Ammar Sam wants to be some kind of sports player. Sometimes he makes mistakes, like falling or hurting someone. He ends up getting a comment like “you suck”. The other kids always make him feel like he is not good enough to play that sport. That ends up changing his whole life. Just…
By Sarah Louziah A few months ago, I lost my best friend that I’ve known since I was born. She was my cousin, too. We were so close and a couple of months ago things started to change. I couldn’t imagine losing her. I was so scared of letting her go. I know everything about…
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…
By Laurie Haber Sarah wanted to be an interior designer. She worked so hard to prepare for her first client. All through her first appointment, Sarah was so excited she didn’t let her client say what he wanted. Sarah kept on rambling on and on about how she wanted the house and what she imagined…
By Terri Elmann From your first step inside your new summer camp, you know your doubtful feelings that finding friends will be hard. From your high ponytail to your twitching feet, everything about your appearance is unwelcomed. At your assigned group, kids are wearing crop top shirts, their hair down and flowing, laughing and gossiping…
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 Tali Zabari Social media affects your identity and who you are. It affects the way you interact with your friends. Let’s say you have a Facebook and you get upset at your friend. You want to talk it out with her so you send her a message saying, “Why are you being so mean to me?”…
By Sara Sultan I think when people get into a fight with their close friends and text them while they are in a fight can often be meaner than how you would talk to them in person. Sometimes, if they text you about how they feel, they would also jump to conclusions and say hurtful words that…
By Shirley S. Whether people like it or not one thing is for sure, social media affects friendship. For example, if a girl has a big party and posts it on Instagram and another girl looks at the picture, she will feel bad because she wants to have a big party but her parents can’t afford…