Uriel Cohen

A modest proposal: Democrats and Republicans should start marrying each other

We live in polarized times. Democrats and Republicans can barely even be in a room together, much less interacting civilly. So maybe it’s good that we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving alone this year? Hardly. Fortunately, Jewish tradition gives us a blueprint for how to navigate polarization: Enter Hillel and Shammai (~10CE). Shammai embraces law-and-order, believing that…