Najiba Keshwani, 16, an 11th grader who is Muslim but jokes that she is half-Jewish because she has many Jewish friends and loves to nosh on matzo, put it this way: “To be American, maybe you used to have to be white and own land, but now we define what American is, and I think that affects how we learn.”
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