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I am still currently reading Kasher in the Rye.  Moshe just told one of his old friends who moved out of Oakland and into a suburb that he smoked weed.  His friend, Richard, told Moshe that he had to quit smoking weed or they wouldn't be friends anymore.  "'I can't be your friend if you do drugs.  You have to choose.  That shit of me.' I never saw Richard again." (Kasher 66)  Doing drugs can destroy families and friendships.  Weed shouldn't come between friends.  This book also brings religion into play.  Moshe's father is forcing him and his brother to be jewish.  "My brother and I went the exact opposite way with Judaism."  (Kasher 69)  Since Moshe is being forced in to being Jewish he is rebeling against his fathers wishes.  I as a child was not baptized by my fathers wishes because he wanted me to choose my own religion.  I think that this was very bold and smart of him.  Religion shouldn't be forced upon someone.