By Charles Grossman I started a new school year. At first I thought, “Wow, this is going to be hard.” I was nervous. I was stressed. I got to the class room and I met my teachers. They were all very nice. The lesson from this story to learn is when you are nervous and…
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 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 Charles Grossman Sometimes in life there are times when you think your nothing to the world., But no matter what happens in your life just remember that ה׳ is doing it. He’s doing it for a cause and our נשמות are not powerful enough to understand why. Everyone serves a purpose in this world…
By Jack Ashkenazi People have friends who take advantage because kids want to be in a group of popular kids and use their rich gadgets. A sign of a good friend is if they keep your secrets and don’t use you. A sign of a bad friend is when they use you if you’re rich or they…
By Jack H. Dweck A sign of a good friend is a friend who helps you when you are not feeling good. My friend tried to cheer me up when I got a bad mark. Also, a good friend is someone who is not mad at me if I play badly. A sign of a bad…
By Samuel Silverman Whenever I hang out with my friend, he tends to speak Lashon Hara. I never really stop him or anything but the right thing to do is to tell him that I don’t want to hear it and he shouldn’t be speaking it. From now in I will overcome my fear…
By Sarah Horowitz Last summer all of my friends went to a sleep away camp for the whole summer. I felt that if I didn’t go I would feel very left out. I ended up staying home and going to a different camp. I didn’t know anyone in that new camp. I was afraid that…
By Alan Mograby A man used to go to the same restaurant for lunch every time he went out to eat. He would order the same pasta dish every time he went. Then, he met a girl and they dated for six months before he proposed to her. Three months later they got married….
By Adolfo Frastai When I was in 6th grade camp had a play. All my friends thought it was weird but deep down I knew I wanted to be in it. I asked them if I should be in it and they said “No” because everyone will make fun of me. I did it…
By Pam Cohen Jane and Sarah were shopping in the city and Jane loved a pair of shoes that Sarah hated. Jane was scared to buy them in front of Sarah. She put a hold on them and asked her mom to buy them later. A few days after Sarah and Jane were looking at…
By Evelyn Tawil Everyone wants acceptance. When you are afraid, you lose opportunities you would be able to take if you weren’t afraid. When you take a look at teens, you can pinpoint at least one fear – fear of not being accepted. Nobody wants to be rejected, alone, or not included. You could be…
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 Joseph Balassiano I was always afraid to raise my hand in class. I always thought the other kids would think that I’m stupid because I was afraid that my answer was wrong. I was afraid and I limited myself to strive in class by not contributing myself to it. I lost myself because from…
By Victoria Gindi Sarah went to Great Adventures with all her friends. Sarah would go on any ride except for King Da Ka, the fastest roller coaster in the world. When all of her friends wanted to go on it Sarah had an important decision to make. Would she overcome her fear and just…
By Joyce Terzi Rebecca was so excited she was going on Sunday to Great Adventure with all of her friends. All weekend she was excited to go and couldn’t wait for Sunday to arrive. When the girls arrived at the park all they were talking about was all the scary rides they wanted to go…
By Albert Dweck I like taking risks. But taking risks shouldn’t be taken lightly whether it’s in your business or marriage.
By Lily Madeb When you have fears you lose an opportunity. The idea of fear is not doing something because you’re scared. On order to acquire these opportunities, we need to take risks. We risk rejection and humiliation but we could also gain success from these risks. Taking risks is considered a ‘win-win’. If…
By Albert Richter My goal was to win a basketball championship on the school basketball team. This year we were favored to be a favorite team. We played amazing all season and went to playoffs. It was a championship day and I was very nervous. We were playing a team that was much bigger…
By Bettie Cohen If you’re uncertain then you will miss out on many beautiful things in life. Like makes new friends or switching to a different class. If you can overcome your thoughts and fears about being uncertain you can accomplish many things. For example you can meet new people, study new subjects and enjoy…
By Jacob Hedaya In school, my teacher in social studies class announced that she will make groups in the class and each group will have to research and make a project on their tribe that she will assign. My group and I decided to make a poster and a slide show. We worked for a long…
By Sara Halwani One day a girl, named Gabrielle, came home from school and told her mom that she is the director of the school play. Her mom spoke to her about choosing the right actors to star in the play. Gabrielle thought about it before she had the talk with her mom and said to herself…
By Joseph Ezon People choose friends that take advantage of them because they want money, toys, to be in a big house, be popular and try to be cool. The sign of a good friend is if you get in a fight with someone and he is on your side. Also, if he includes you in everything…
By Joyce Betesh One day, a new girl arrived to school. The “It girls” (the popular girls) went over to her to see who she was. They asked her, “Who are you?” The new girl answered, “Hello, to you too. My name is Jessica. What are your names?” “We call ourselves the ‘It girls’.” Jessica was confused….
By Isaac Shalom My goal is to be a famous author when I grow up. The problem is I am a terrible writer and I have a stage fright. I went to perform I got stage fright and froze up. However, even though I froze up, I refused to give up. I kept performing regardless…
By Ralph Missry Uncertain test grades lead to better future as long as you know the information. It’s not all about grades. If you know the material you will succeed.
By: Charles Grossman When you are facing a challenge not to let it affect you When you are growing up we are taught to have emunah or faith in Hashem the key to dealing with stressful challenges is to make sure that you prepare yourself as best you can for the challenge, and in the back…
By Hiram I have a goal to be the best chazzan. It didn’t work out so well. In shul I was chazzan and the rabbi was fixing my mistakes. I had a bunch of mistakes and I got embarrassed. The next week I was chazzan again. I made fewer mistakes and I felt much better.
By Eddie Catton During my first time ice skating, I fell tons of times. I really wanted to start playing ice hockey. After my first time ice skating, I felt very frustrated. But, I thought to myself, every professional was once a beginner. All these famous players in the professional leagues all had a start….