Eitan: come for Shabboz, if you're free on Friday.
Maria: you don't cook!
Eitan: I didn't say I was. I tried this Grab food delivery.
Maria: they're not kosher.
Eitan: not eating kosher is a lesser sin, than eating something else like... whatever.
Maria: okay... what did you order?
Eitan: burger. You will like. It is big.
Maria: sure.
Comes to his flat for Friday night dinner.
Maria: this is exactly why I don't want to come over.
Eitan: what's wrong?
Maria: eating dinner with the News on.
Eitan: it's good. Israel is giving the olive branch to the Arab world, with Donald Trump, and Kushner and Netanyahu with Dubai.
Maria: I've always wanted to go to Dubai.
Eitan: me too.
Looks at each other.
Eitan: it is sad. Honest people like us are not rich. But dishonest people are rich.
Maria: you should have said this before I came, I could have brought something potent.
Eitan stands up, to go to the kitchen.
Maria: do not brew a cup of tea! I said potent.
Eitan: relax, it's cola.
News changes topic.
Maria: look at the religious people, they're so happy.
Eitan: yeah because seculars like us, pay for them to pray.
Maria: should we consider teshuva? A reform rabbi said, I can pass as Jewish... having a heritage.
Eitan: I don't like the idea that money comes from the sky.
Maria: where would money come from? Hashem never really printed out US Dollars from the sky. History said he gave bread from the sky.
Eitan: problem is, we all want money.
Maria: maybe money is the source of unhappiness.
Eitan: and please don't say that, cryptocurrency is worse.
Maria: I am so going to work on Monday and make paper money credited electronically in my bank.
Eitan laughs hard.
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Tea Drinking BFFs
Non-FictionDaily anecdote of a shiksa (non-Jewish woman) writer who is best friends with an Isreali Jewish man. The older brother she wishes to have. The younger sister he wishes to have. Separated by faith, and ethnicity... but best of friends over the same...
