By Nancy Tobias I went to my new friend’s’ house for the first time. I was really excited and anxious. We decided to go to the park. We went with her whole family. In the park, I fell and really hurt my foot. I didn’t want to cry in front of the whole family, I…
By Leonore Tawil This year, I tried out for the softball team. I tried out because I thought it would be fun to be on a team. When I tried out, I was not able to catch or throw well. A few times the ball hit me in the face because I couldn’t catch. I…
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…
By Evelyn Turkieh Friendship is the key to happiness. Over time, the meaning of friendship has changed. People care more about popularity and avoid reality. A real friend is someone who you’re able to trust. Someone you can count on. Someone who will always be there for you, through the good and the bad. Real friends accept…
By Miriam Turkieh Instagram, Facebook. All social media distracts you from being you! When do you ever stop and think, “What do I want to do?” When you are in your teenage years, all your friends spend and spend and you don’t think you need all the things your friends buy. But, you are under pressure to…
By Esther Haddad When I see people out for lunch they usually all eat the same kind of food. One day I saw a girl who was on a diet, and she couldn’t eat the food that her friends were eating. So she brought her own home lunch. Her friends didn’t let her sit with…
By Daniella Babaee During freshman year I tried out for the volleyball team. I thought that I had a good chance of joining the team, even though a lot of people tried out. To my misfortune I didn’t even get first cut. Discouraged, I went home and thought I would never try out again. My…
By Yafit Kamkhehji Probably the most common fear in life is meeting new people and finding true friends. Fear causes people to feel weak, to feel that they’re not capable of doing things because people are better than they are. You lose the mental strength to try new things to take risks that will…
By Susan Esses You can’t find real friends because you are too busy chasing everyone else. It makes you feel as if you have a lot of friends when, meanwhile, you really don’t. This story was published in the Bar Mitzvah Magazine
By Brooks Tawil I think that flexibility is a very important quality. If, lets say when you are older, you are planning your Bar Mitzvah there are a change of plans. If you are flexible, you will be able to downsize into a smaller bar mitzvah. Although, if you aren’t, you will be panicking because you…
By Sean Haimowitz You are playing a game of football and you have the worst kid in the school on your team. It is the last play of the game and, if your team scores a touchdown, you move on to the championship game. The worst kid in the grade is wide open in the end…
By Ofir Zahavi The first inner quality that comes to my mind is patience. With technology today, almost everything is instantaneous or at least expected to be. Just like when someone tries to watch a video, people get frustrated when they wait only an extra minute. Today, people need to remember just how it used…
By Robert Anderson I think that having a positive attitude is a very important trait to have. If someone has a positive attitude, he will never give up on a situation and will look at a bad situation in a good way. Let’s say there is a guy who works for a business and the business…
By Ness Mugrabi One day I was going to raise my hand in class. I was scared that people were going to make fun of me if got it wrong. I was thinking for a while if I should raise my hand or not. So, I took a stand and raised my hand and…
By Hymie Sasson Two boys come home after school. Abie goes home and eats dinner then goes straight to his room to play Xbox. The other boy, Danny comes home and goes straight to his desk to do his homework. This is an example of two different types of kids; Abie, the lazy one and Danny…
By Renee Hadef As we all know blackberry played too safe. They had the chance to take a risk but they didn’t. The iPhone started to take over their business. Now, blackberry is drowning. In this case many of us are the blackberry. We like to play safe. We are too scared to get out…
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 Korina Kafif As you grow older, you continue to develop into your comfortable self. Your comfort zone might not be loud and proud. Doing anything out of your comfort zone such as giving your own opinion or expressing your clothing style, might get you nervous. In the end there will be someone that appreciated…
By David Laniado Someone who has a business and it’s not been doing well and he still has a positive attitude even though everything has not been doing well for him. He still is being productive and working hard and showing effort that he will not give up. A saying is, “When someone pitches you…
By Sheila Matut Whenever my friends and I make plans, one of my friends is always on her phone. Another one of my friends is never on her phone. When I talk to her I enjoy it because I know she is listening to me when I talk to her. She is also very honest. If…
By Michelle Harari There is no such thing as being fearless. Fears chase you down, waiting for you at every corner. However, it is your decision of whether or not you want to shake fear’s hand as you turn that corner, or if you continue waking straight, avoiding fear at all costs. This is a…
By Michael Arazi Every day in gym, a group of kids played basketball. But, there was always one kid that didn’t play and sat on the side and played by himself because he wasn’t good. One day he decided to play with them and realized they weren’t good. He was one of the best…
By Patricia Jemal One time, my friends and I were at an ice cream shop filled with many people. There were Jews and non-Jews. We were all sitting at a table and being as loud as can be. We were all being silly and making Hillul Hashem. One of my friends, who is not scared to…
By Bridgette Marcus Everyday, I witness one of my best friend’s inner qualities of honesty and responsibility. And, I have a story to share. It was 2:24, one minute till Mincha. While everyone was rushing into the lunchroom to go pray, this friend was in the bathroom. The bell rang and it was 2:25. The praying…
By Marlena Cohen Joy has a test right after recess and she knows that Lucy already took the test. Joy walked up to Lucy and said, “Hey, what were the questions that were on the test?” Lucy knows why Joy asked, but she is not going to say because she knows it is wrong. But,…
By Claudine Chehova When I was in 7th grade, there was a 7th grade play. All of my friends used to think it was weird to be in the play but I was scared they would make fun of me. I told one of my friends and she laughed at me. I thought to myself,…
By Daniel Salzman In life experiences many people don’t take risks because of fear. The fear isn’t really the risk but it’s about the fear of stepping out of your comfort zone. Someone’s comfort zone is almost a personal bubble that they don’t want to leave. People might not do something that they are normally…
By Michelle Zalta Every girls loves shopping. Shipping for clothes, shoes, anything. Over the years there are many fads and styles that everyone want to wear. Sometimes many girls simply want to dress like everyone else and follow the ongoing styles of society, out of fear that buying clothes that are not ‘in style’…
By Emma Dayan There was a girl. She was always a really shy person. She was also really smart and got good grades. In school she kept to herself and never spoke, just in case she was wrong. One day she was in class and the teacher asked a question to the class. The question…
By Joseph Gindi In class every day when the teacher would ask questions to the class the smartest boy in the class would always by afraid to answer the question. He always knew the answer but never answered this is because he was scared that if she got it wrong he would be made…
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 Gabriel Vizgan “You’re going to be there, right?” “Yeah, yeah I’ll be there,” was the respond I got. My best friends and I were signed up for the two on two basketball tournament scheduled for tomorrow. “Hey,” he said “I head David Goldman is going to be there.” David was the best basketball player…
By Freida Zeitoune Sarah is a high school honors students. She has been in the same class since second grade with the same friends in it. But she wanted something new. She always wanted to hang out with the ‘popular’ crowd. She sometimes ditched her real friends to hang out with people who didn’t…
By Gabrielle Cohen Color war in Flatbush is the funnest time of the year. However, it can be full of fear for shy people. When everyone was sharing ideas how to make up the skit, there was only one girl who didn’t say anything. She had a great idea that was connected to the…
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 Daniel Esses Once at Great adventures Six Flags my friends and I were about to go on a King Da Ka. One person was scared to go on because he was afraid of heights. While waiting on line we tried convincing him to go on it by showing how safe and fun it…
By Dylan Sutton There was once a little boy who was transferring to school. He was currently in 3rd grade with a lot of friends and would be moving during the summer going into 4th grade. During that summer, they boy was going to go to camp with all the brand new kids he…
By Cynthia Benun When you’re younger, you ride on a bike with training wheels for many years. For many children, transition to a bike without training wheels because they don’t know what it’s like on a big bike. Sometimes it takes a very long time for kids to get used to the idea of leaving…