"Mm. Well, everyone thinks their way of being Jewish is the best way, and everyone else is doing it wrong. You should see what happens when you get three million in one place."
She likes hearing him talk. Lee so seldom has anything to say, and when she does, has little ability to express it in a way she's satisfied with in English. People think she's quiet because she's too passive to prevent herself from being talked over but that's not it. It's nice to let someone else have all the words.
Or not all of them, because the point is to have a dialogue, and she surprised herself with how much she had to say tonight, but most. She knows people find Michael's voice grating — Rich is the worst about that, but lately Rich has taken literally any excuse to criticize someone he sees as a threat to his Art, and their constant arguments are a huge part of why Lee has lately spent less and less time at the Chelsea — but Lee can't tell the difference between American accents, they all kind of sound alike to her. It's more about the content of what he says and the cadence.
Nice to know she could literally listen to him speak for hours.
And also nice to speak Hebrew for once, a language she otherwise has little opportunity to use in New York. She's reaching the point where she can think in English, the mark of fluency, but she'll never really like it.