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By Brenda Heffez Sarah and Michelle were best friends. Sarah was smart and kind. Michelle wasn’t so smart but she was still kind. It was Tuesday and an assignment was due in English class. Michelle didn’t complete the assignment and asked Sarah if she can borrow it. Sarah wasn’t so sure about giving Michelle the work because…
By Madalyn Zalta A good friend is someone who you can trust, doesn’t use you. If your friend always asks you for homework every night, and when you need homework she is not there, that’s a sign of a friend using you. You shouldn’t be friends with someone who does that. If you take advantage of someone,…
By Charles Seruya One day my 3 friends and I were walking to a pizza shop. About half a mile away we came to a street that we didn’t recognize. We were lost for about half an hour. One of my friends said, “Hey, the pizza shop is that way.” We didn’t believe him but we were…
By Charles Haddad People use others because they will get to use all the things that the other guy has.
By Sarah Gammal The difference between real friendship and fake friendship is real friends are always there for you and they help you when you need them. Real friends cheer you up and care fro you. Fake friends just use you to get something they really want. It’s disrespectful and mean. Being a real friend is so…
By Pamela Franco We had a math project and we got jobs. I was the director and my partner was the presenter. I worked really hard and I did it very well. It was the day to present. I was sick so that I couldn’t come to school. My partner did not work on the project and…
By Sam Dweck What is a sign of a good friend? They share with you, they are there when you need them, and they accept you for who you are. A sign of a bad friend is when they are mean to other people but nice to you. They don’t share with you. They use you by…
By Violet Cohen Something that happened to me when I didn’t give up was when I kept trying and trying to make a roller coaster with my brother. We tried 17 times and it never worked. Finally, on the 18th time, I put the last piece on and it finally worked. It took us 2 hours but…
By Claudia Chera We all want to be the main character. Out of everyone, we all want to shine bright. For example a girl is chosen to be the color war general. We should be happy for her. From her spotlight talents to her hidden talents, she has a great cheerful personality to her hidden talents of…
By Rebecca Greenstein When you take advantage of someone you don’t have a real friend. You might feel cool for having a rich and the most popular girl as a friend. But, to everyone else, you are not really cool. You are using someone. When everyone finds out that you used her, you are not going…
By Cookie Cohen A costume designer Randy was chosen to design the costumes for the cast. Randy did a lot of work. She spent hours and hours designing it. When the day of the play came everyone loved the costumes. The star of the play said to give it up to our costume designer Randy. Randy loved…
By Ruthie Mineh The new school year started and Sarah was new at the yeshiva. She didn’t know anybody in school. She was really shy and thought, “Who will ever be friends with me.” She went to Hebrew class and knew every question that the Hebrew teachers asked. In her school there was a popular girl named…
By Alyn Kbabia A bad friend is someone who would spread rumors about you. If your friend rejects you, that’s not the right friend for you.
By Jack Katach A bad friend is someone who is using you and laughs at you with other people, – just like Lavan used Eliezer for the gold and wanted to kill him. If a popular kid wanted to be friends with a different kid but not for friendship, just to take money from him, he would…
By Michael Kameo A good friend will give me food, play with me during recess. A bad friend would use me for my stuff. A good friend won’t push my buttons, won’t talk behind me back. He would congratulate me when I win and won’t steal my ideas. A good friend would listen to me. We need…
By Yosef Ftiha There was once a boy named Michael who was the smartest boy in the grade. He got 100s on his test. One day, a boy in his class named Benny heard that Michael got 100s on his Mishna, Navi and Chumash tests. Benny had a Mishna test coming up. Everybody knew that Benny was…
By Victor Faks A sign of a good friend is one who cares for you. If you get hurt, your friend runs to help you. That’s a good friend. Another sign of a good friend is an honest friend. An honest friend doesn’t talk bad about you behind your back and doesn’t lie to you. A good…
By Shlomo Althkefati When we have teamwork it helps the whole team. The point guard makes all the decision for the team so we all get the spotlight. If you don’t have teamwork, you are guaranteed to lose.
By David Tawil Every week, you and your friend make plans. If you like basketball and I like football, your friend likes games, you let your friend go first to do what he liked. Then you go to a basketball game the next week. That’s what a good friend would do.
By Lauren Savdie One day sunny day in camp in the summer of 2010 there was a group names 5G. This group loved to play dodge ball. They decided to play dodge ball. There were two captains. One was Patricia and the other captain was Sandy. Patricia grabbed the ball first and tried to throw it but…
By Ezra Mamiye A sign of a good friend is if he talks to you. He is friendly, likes to give you snack. He is kind to everyone. A sign of a bad friend is if he is mean to you, shows off his gadgets, bosses you around, calls you names, hits you, makes fun of you.
By Sammy Kishk Tom and Bob are good friend. Tom is rich. Bob doesn’t have good games. He is jealous of Tom. Secretly, he told everybody not to be friends with Tom. One day, Tom was wondering why no one was his friend anymore. Bob was happy because on Sundays he could go over to Tom and…
By Bella Douek Leah wanted the role in the play. She felt bad because Raquel was really better than her in singing, acting, and dancing, she saw that Raquel really wanted to be the lead role but Leah could easily get the part because she is friends with the director. So she decided that it’s the right…
By Jennifer Benzaken One day, my friend Genelle invited me over to her house. When I went there, she said so many nice things about me. She asked me for money so we can buy something. I gave her a $10 bill. I had $5 left, but I didn’t care because she was my friend. When…
By Teddy Laniado I was playing a basketball game in camp and we were losing. The time was almost up. We were down by two. My friend stole the ball and hit a three pointer. Even though he wasn’t a very good player, we won the game at the end. I told him his stealing…
By Joyce Cohen There was a group of kids who had to make 600 cookies for the event. The leader’s name was Frieda. Frieda was a bad leader. They only made 300 cookies and they needed to bake 300 more cookies in one hour. They decided to switch leaders. The new leader was Joy. Joy gave…
By Mary Salem The teacher asked Rachel to organize the play and to give everyone a part in the play. Rachel had the chance to take the main part for herself. But, she knew she was not very good at singing. Also, she knew her best friend Sandy was very good at singing and acting. So,…
By Yosef Mizrahi A bad friend is someone who will invite you over and not do anything with you. He would just play on his xBox the whole time. He would never let you talk in conversation, will cut you off when you are saying something. A good friend will try to make you have…
By Rachel Lati Carly knew Melissa from school. Carly asked Melissa, “Do you have any hair clips, pony tails and fun games?” Melissa replied, “Yes.” Carly asked, “Can I have them?” Melissa said, “Ok.” They played together the whole day. The next day, when Carly was walking back from school, Melissa said, “Hi, Carly.” Carly replied, “Oh,…
By Molly Haber When you have 300 friends on Facebook, it doesn’t mean that you have 300 real friends. When you have 3 or 4 friends in real life, then those friends are real friends. Sometimes you don’t even know half of the people that are following you on Facebook. So, that is not considered a true…
By Paula Guindi I study with my friend and I ask her, can I have some candy. she answers no. I give her a big piece from my candy but when I ask to get a piece from her candy, she gives me a crumb. That’s a bad friend.
By Leslie Antar My friends and I went to a food store. Everyone was eating the same and I liked something different on the menu. I didn’t like what they were eating. They were eating pizza and I wanted sushi. The mom asked, “Do you want anything?” I said, “Sure, I’d like some sushi.” Then I got…
By Mayer Zeitoune A good friend will never let you down. A good friend remembered that it was my birthday. He said, “Happy Birthday!” I said, “You are really a good friend because you remembered.” The next thing I knew, he threw me a surprise party.
By Sari Alfaks In color war, people usually want to be the general or the captain. The hidden talents are the kids on the team. Compliment hidden talent by telling them that it’s all up to them for us to win. All the hard work that they will be doing will get us to the top. With…
By Jacob Sorcher Some people let other people take advantage of them so that they can get popular and have an advantage. There are so many ways you can tell if you have a good friend. Your friend is not taking advantage if he shares and does not just take, but he also gives. If he tries…
By Susan Ezon One day a girl that I wasn’t really friends with was crying. I went up to her and asked what happened. She said, “Nothing.” I knew it had to be something. I asked her again, “Please tell me, maybe I can help you?” She said, “Can you promise you won’t tell anyone?…
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 Cookie Cohen Cindy wanted to lose weight. Cindy made a commitment to herself that she would lose weight. Cindy tried and tried. One day during lunch time there was her favorite lunch on the menu. Cindy told herself not to eat and she saw all of her friends eating her favorite lunch. She said…
By Nelly Alfaks One day I decided that I wouldn’t speak Lashon Hara anymore. I was in my friend’s house and we were talking about a girl in my grade. We kept on speaking about her, until, my friend realized we were speaking Lashon Hara. So, we felt very guilty and we tried to…
By Evelyn Antebi I committed myself to save up my money to buy big things instead of little things. I wanted to buy a laptop. So, every day I tried to spend my money wisely. But, one day walked into a store bought something small. Then, I walked into another store and another and just…