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 Rena Shamah I was very nervous at my job interview. I am scared of being alone with people. I get very awkward. When I arrived at my job interview. I started to get all red and I completely blanked out. When she asked me the questions I was humiliated. Then next week I got…
By Rena Shamah I was very nervous at my job interview. I am scared of being alone with people. I get very awkward. When I arrived at my job interview. I started to get all red and I completely blanked out. When she asked me the questions I was humiliated. Then next week I got…
By Albert Aini When people are being bullied they are frightened. Bystanders are watching and laughing. That kid thinks he will lose out for telling his parents because his parents want to help him. If he would have told them maybe he won’t be bullied anymore. Sometimes when you face you fear good things could…
By Moshe Illouz James had a goal of being a famous actor. He went to an audition feeling confident. He froze during the audition and was laughed at and embarrassed. James felt like giving up, he read an article online about his favorite actor not getting the role the first time he auditioned. The actor…
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 Isaac Arazi In a basketball game. The point guard is dribbling up the court. There is 5 seconds left and it’s a tied game. The point guard gets doubled team. The point guard has two choices. One is to pass to the best player on the team and he has a defender on him…
By David Azrak I am not man of change nor am I one that ever pushes himself to adopt. With that said, however, I can recall a story from my post in which a similar situation occurred. Basically, everyone was leaving this certain summer camp that we all went to for several years. And I was…
By Merle Dweck Hands trembling, eyes darting from side to side. Uncertainty washed over me like rain on a stormy day. “What do I do?” I whispered quietly under my breath. I have to convince myself. But, what if I don’t? My heart beats faster even thinking about it. “No,” I tell myself steamily….
By Baruch Shabot My first time playing football was very scary. I knew my team was going to lose because of me. I didn’t know how to catch the ball; I didn’t know any of the rules. So, I sat down for the rest of the game. But, then I was taught how to play…
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 Morris Sutton Social media has many pros and cons just like most things in life. Social media has corrupted many minds. For example, it can boost our morale and self confidence but not in a real and true way. Yet, it manipulates our brains into thinking we’re all that. But, in reality, we are not. Social…
By Nina D. Social media can be harmful to friendship, to the way you see and feel about yourself and gain respect for yourself. The second you log onto social media, you can gain 500 followers. But, the second you log off, they disappear. They are not there to support and care about you. All you…
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 Alex Zemmol One day, I was playing football. I made a bad pass and it caused us to lose the game. From then on, whenever I play football, even if I get a chance to make a pass in the beginning of the game, I try as much as I can, to do…
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?…