By Alexis Menahem Once I was helping my mother. I was putting a glass plate away. I dropped the plate. My mom said, “It’s ok. But next time be more careful.” I said, “Ok” and left. The next week she asked me to help her again. I was scared but, I did it anyway. She…
By Jakey Tawil One time, I was playing basketball. There was 2 seconds left and we were down by one point. I had the ball wide open under the basket. I missed it and lost the game for my team. I felt really bad. I wanted to give up. But, I didn’t. The next…
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 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 Michael Gammal One day I walked up to my dad and asked him if I can read from the torah. He replied to me, “Yes.” The next day I got my part to read. I practiced it. On Saturday it was my turn to read. I went up to the torah and read it…
By Steven Sutton The buzzer sounds and the game is over. The team starts saying hateful things at you. They lost and it was your fault. How will you feel? Probably pretty badly. But, that isn’t a reason to give up. Practice makes perfect. Next time come out stronger and don’t be nervous in…
By Rena Chaiklen You have an assignment in one of your classes to write a story. You have a really great idea and work very hard to write it. When you get to school the day that it’s due, you are very confident and happy with your story. You go around showing it to everyone…
By Breindy Ovitsh Adina was a very good artist. She loved to draw. It was her life. When she was younger she took lessons and now she was an expert. After a few years she wanted to be in a big competition. She practiced so hard, until her art was perfect. Soon the big day…