By Y.Meir Charnoff There was a man who wanted to become an artist. He signed up at the art school to learn how to draw. The man took art classes for 3 years. Then he started drawing. He sent his first drawing to the store. They put it on display. He was passing by the store…
By Daniel Chaim Gavrelov Once I was playing basketball and my goal was to win the game. But, I missed the last shot to win and I lost the game. My friends were screaming at me, because I missed the last shot. The next day, my friends asked me if I wanted to play I said,…
By Chaya Shmaya Feder One boy had a goal to be a able to learn every night for 3 hours. Every time he tried he was unsuccessful. Every night he came home and did endless homework, ate supper and read for about 4 hours and then he tried to do the Hebrew homework. He tried to…
By Avi Brodt Naftali wasn’t to be a good author. One day he wrote a book. He went to the publisher; he asked, “Can you publish my book?” The publisher said, “Ha! You have to write better.” Naftali wrote another book, he went again to another publisher. He too didn’t want to publish it. Then, he…
By Dani Feldshteyn Lets’ say this boy, Moshe, does not know how to swim. He takes lessons to learn how to swim and he fails. The next day, he comes back and takes another lesson and another, but he keeps failing. The next day, his mother tells him to try again, but he doesn’t want to…
By Shira Ponino I come home thinking that everything was ok. My mother asked me, “What did you get on your math test?” I didn’t know what to say. If I lie, then it won’t be a problem. So, I lied and told her I got a good grade. If I keep on lying to…
By Sophia Kastika Sarah’s goal is to become a fashion designer. She designed a dress for her friend, but her friend didn’t like it. Sarah didn’t want to be a fashion designer anymore, but her mom talked her into trying again. While she was making the dress she thought of her mom’s words, “if at first…
By Sophia Hindy On a Friday afternoon I was baking muffins. I felt very good and accomplished about it. But when I tasted them, something was wrong. Before I could tell anyone they shouldn’t eat, they already did. They told me it was fine, so I wouldn’t feel bad. But I knew the truth. This didn’t…
By Frieda Alhalabi One day my mom told me to cook for my sister’s Bat Mitzvah. I said, “Yes I would love to bake cookies for her.” I love her so much. I used the best recipe. When everyone tried my cookies at the party, they said it tasted disgusting. I was crying. When my brother’s…
By Sophia Hindy Posting a picture on any social media starts out as fun for you. But once you see other people’s accounts you see how she has so many likes, followers, comments, etc., . Seeing these will suck the fun out of the point of the media. You don’t necessarily have to stop using these…
By Raizy Makaron When we had a school play one girl wanted to be in charge of testing everybody for singing but she didn’t know how to sing so she didn’t know who was good or bad. But when we had a color war everybody participated and was good at what they were chosen to be….
By Malky Fogel One time when we had a color war, the girl who was chosen to be a captain didn’t let anyone do anything. She wrote the song and sang it. She drew the poster and presented it. Of course we lost and the other team who worked together won. Another year a girl got…
By Tehilla Nisanev When you make a play each individual should use her own talents. Smart girls do the research, artistic girls draw banners, loud ones present the banners and cheer. When one works on a science project it will not succeed if noone does the research on the topic and noone likes to do it…
By Leah Faena Everyone would want to be the captain so they could get a lot of credit. People don’t want to make banners because they don’t get so much attention for it after only 2 minutes of showing the banner. One time a girl wanted to help with the banners and other girls didn’t let…
By Malky Ettlinger When we had a color war, our counselor picked out a girl to be the head. Noone wanted to listen to her because they wanted a popular girl to be the captain instead. So, instead of listening, the girls didn’t do anything she said and the team lost. It’s hard for people to…
By Tehila Kaplan Last time we had a color war, someone wanted to draw a poster even though she didn’t know how to draw. The poster was worth most of the points and it came out horrible.
By Fraidy Emanuel Most of the girls would want the main part in acting because then they would be the center of attention the whole time. If she isn’t there then there would be no play. A solution for this would be for the girl who acts the best she should get the main part and…
By Miriam Hunger When you a working on a color war if you are in charge of badges, people might say that what you made up is weird and then you’ll feel like you did it all for nothing. When everyone fights and wants to do everything by themselves then you are guaranteed to lose points…
By Leah Hatanian “Girls, listen up! We are going to make a play, ‘The Wizard of Us.’ I am going to split you up to practice with your group lines from the play. On Monday, will be the auditions. Good luck! So the groups are: Sarah, Miri and Chana in the 1st group.” The second Sarah…
By Aliza Greenberger “I like your dress,” said Sara. “Thank you,” said Leah. After a day of compliments, Leah said “You want to come to my house after school?” “Sure.” “Why don’t we practice for the play?” said Leah. “Well,” replied Sara, “I don’t really have a part.” “That’s all right. I can get you one….
By Yael Abramowitz If you are feeling left out of a group, what do you do? Do you try to befriend somebody in the group? Which girl do you choose? The most friendly girl? Probably not. Most likely you will befriend the most popular, stylish girl. After all, she is the one who will help you…
By Adina Feigelstein Shira burst into the classroom. Her eyes were sparkling with excitement. She announced to the whole class that she had gotten the newest game that was very expensive. All day, during recess and lunch, Shira talked about the game. A crowd of girls gathered around her to listen. Among those girls was Naomi who…
By Esti Samel “My birthday is in only three more weeks!” screamed Chavi. “And this year my birthday party is going to be the best!” she boasted. “We’re going to go bowling and get ice cream,” Chavi exclaimed in joy. Aliza, on the other hand, really wanted to be invited. So, she decided on a plan….
By Chaviva Martin You have a classmate who you get into a lot of fights with. One day, you hear that she is head of a play. You really want to be the main part. So, you start acting nice to her when you really don’t like her. You hear that you got the main part….
By Miriam Shadrouz You and your friend and another girl are going bike riding. The other girl is not allowed to go to the next block. You ask your friend, “Do you want to go the next block?” And you dump the other girl. You know you are a bad friend. This story was published in…
By Hodaya Bentyaghoub One day, Dina came to school in her new school shoes. Everybody always wanted those shoes. So, everybody started being friends with Dina. She never used to be as popular as she was now. One day, everyone found out that Dina’s shoes were not really hers. They were her cousin’s. From then on,…
By Shira Frenkel “Hi, my parents are going away can I stay with you for today?” Atara just asked me if she could stay at my house. She is the most popular girl in school. “Yeah, but I’ll need to ask my mother,” I said in excitement. I watched Atara go back to her popular group….
By Rosie Edelman Leah was having a math test the next day. She was doing poorly in math. She called up one girl, Tamar, who is great in math. She didn’t really like Tamar, but if she wanted to get 100 then she had no choice. Leah studied all night on the phone with Tamar. She…
By Sara Silber Leah’s party is tomorrow. Chanie needed a present. “Mommy, can you get me a present? Leah’s birthday is tomorrow and she is so popular. Get her the fanciest present.” At the party, they played pin the nose on the head. “Leah, you go fist or tell someone to go first,” we all said…
By Leah Reichman Gitty and Alana were studying together for the Chumash test that was tomorrow. After that, Alana’s mother came to pick her up. The next day, Gitty was hanging around Alana. Alana was ignoring her. Gitty was waiting for Alana to invite her in the game. Gitty didn’t do anything the whole recess. Recess…
By Chavi Weill One of my “friends” is really popular. But, she always tells secrets that I asked her not to say. She always leaves me out and takes advantage of me. I don’t like it, but I didn’t leave her out. I included her even though it was hard. Some people take advantage of others…
By Faigy Eisen Huvy is not the best student in school. One night, our teacher gave way too much homework. Huvy sighed. When Huvy came home, she thought of only one thing. The homework. Huvy ran to the phone and called Dasie. “Hello,” said Huvy. “Hi,” responded Dasie, the smartest girl in class. “I need help…
By Shifra Azarfar I wanted to become friends with a popular girl in my class. I wanted to use her and be nice to her. Help her with her homework, test, etc. I helped her, but she didn’t even say thank you. Using a friend is not worth it.
By Chanie Klug “Sara, can I please have snack? I don’t have any,” said Leah. “Sure, Leah. Here, I have an extra snack bag.” “Sara, school is over, but I am so in the mood for pizza,” said Leah. “My father owns pizza store. You could come with me,” answered Sara. “I’d love to, but I…
By Rivky Samel “Hello?” Lilly screamed into the phone. “Are you there?” “Yeah, what’s up?” Dina said in a low faint voice. Dina had been sick for 2 days already and her “BFF” was calling her. They talked for a long time, but Dina’s voice was getting more and more hoarse. So, they had to hang…
By Diana Hoffstein Facebook, Instagram and Twitter almost everyone has one. It changes your life and your friendships. You probably don’t even want a Facebook or Twitter but you get it so that, maybe, you could be just like the other people who seem “popular,” but really they are just like you. All you do is compare…
By Shelley Sitt In my gymnastics class, I was lead and my friend felt bad. So, I told everyone that my best friend helped me on this part. She felt very good. My friend said, “Thank you so much” to me. I told everyone that my friend will show her moves as well. I decided that…
By Shirley Sardar One day, I was walking in the hallway when my friend came up to me and said, “Can you help me find my jacket?” I said, “Ok, I’ll help you.” We went into the last class she was in and it was locked. We had to go downstairs and get the key. When…
By Morris Guindi 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 Isaac Gindi A sign of a good friend is someone who plays with you and doesn’t leave you out. One time, my friend came over to my house to play football and we had a good time. At school we played football in passes and I fell. He helped me up. I had little cuts so…