Avi shakes his head. “I could become a Buddhist or a Mormon or a Republican and I’d still be a Jew, too. My mom’s Jewish. And her mom is. I didn’t get a choice in that.” “You don’t want to be Jewish?” Max asks. “You get to ride around on chairs and stomp on glasses.” “No, I do,” Avi says. “But not because of chairs or glasses. It’s a community, we take care of each other. Even if you don’t keep kosher or even believe in God, you’re still Jewish and you still belong to this huge line of people who fought to survive, over and over, so you could exist. I like being Jewish, but it’s not something
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