By Michelle Saka One day, Jacqueline was getting bullied a lot. When Shelly was eating her snack she suddenly paused and said, “Stop.” Shelly walked down the street with Jacqueline. As they were walking Jacqueline said, “Boy am I hungry.” “Well, here, I have some money,” said Shelly. “Let’s go to the ice cream truck, its right…
By Daniel Tawil Jacob wanted snack from Liam. Jacob became friendly with Liam, so he can have snack. Liam gave snack to Jacob and Jacob was nice to Liam. The next day Jacob was organizing a league. Liam came over thinking, he made Jacob his friend, and asked Jacob if he could play. Jacob said to Liam,…
By Gayle Zagha When there is a group of people who are all basically the same, the fear stops you from being yourself. If you are not acting like yourself, then how are people supposed to like you for who you are? Just act like yourself and be loved by them and let them accept you for…
By David Saka You have a friends and he helped you with your homework. He helps you for a long time because he cares about you. You are out for lunch. Two people ask you for money. First friend is your best friend. Second friend helped you. If you give money to your best friend, than you…
By Rose Mishaan The quality I think is the most important is having a positive attitude. If you have a positive attitude anything can get done. For example, if it’s raining outside and you wanted to go to the park, a positive person would say, “We’ll get out boots and jump in the puddles instead.” Even…
By Gabrielle Dweck You are the judge in a competition that our friend entered. It is a cooking competition. It’s your friend’s turn to come up to the judges to see what they thought of her dish. You thought that it wasn’t cooked well and needed more salt. So, you told your friend that. Wow! She…
By Eleanor Steinberg One day I was playing basketball with my friends. I hit my head on something and my nose was bleeding. It was 2 days before my Bat Mitzvah. I was scared that I broke it. I was looking forward to my Bat Mitzvah a whole year. I was so scared. But I felt bad…
By Michael Ancona Let’s say that there are 4 boys having a sleepover and there are only 3 beds. So, one boy will have to sleep on the floor. A sign of a good friend is someone who cares about you, someone who will sleep on the floor and let his friends sleep on the bed. This…
By Sari Kassin There was a girl named Lori. One day, she woke up early in the morning to make her bus for school. She put on her uniform and went downstairs. But, as she was walking down the steps, she fell and hurt her leg. She got up and went to eat her breakfast. As…
By Lillie Galapo I was in camp two years ago and I tried out for the play Annie. I was hoping to be the lead, but I sang and acted so badly. I ended up being an extra. I was crying for two weeks. I didn’t want to be in the play. But I was…
By Shimmy Cohen A trait that I think is important is anger management. One time one boy tripped and fell on another boy who was eating a slice of pizza. When the boy who tripped got up, the boy who was eating pizza looked at his shirt. There was a huge sauce stain on his…
By David Saka One Monday morning the Mesader asked me to be Chazan for Nishmat. I said, “Well, I don’t know it that well.” But I did it anyway. While I was a chazzan, I made 20 mistakes and I was stuttering. Everyone was laughing at me. At the end of Tefilah, I was very…
By Terri Saka The bus was beeping and Leah was rushing to catch the bus. When she got outside, the bus already left. Leah was running so fast that she tripped in the mud. She just shook it off and she caught up to the bus. When she got to school, someone was making fun of…
By Joe Mamiye One time a boy on the middle school hockey team was put into a game to score the game’s winning goal. The problem was that he didn’t score the goal and the game went to a shootout. This boy was supposed to also score the game winning goal in the shootout…
By Adele Saka Miriam was on stage overcoming her stage freight. There were about 100 people watching her as she just stood there. She tried letting her voice out but nothing came out. She stood there until the backstage crew had to come out to get her and apologize to the audience. Months later,…
By Gayle Zagha An 8th grade boy is in a lower math track. But he is really trying to do better. He practices and practices during all of his free time and yet he still fails his quizzes. Everyone keeps telling him to stop trying, “you’re never going to get any better. You’re not smart.”…
By Gabrielle Dweck There was once a girl names Emma. Emma just got a new job at her dream office, working as a designer in a high end company. She was the new girl. Most of the employees stayed clear of her. She kept trying and trying to become part of the clique, but they…