You don’t have to be Jewish to put on your party hats and choose hope and joy | Nadine von Cohen

Rosh Hashanah, Jewish new year, is full of rituals. But don't even think about making resolutions

Monday night is Rosh Hashanah, AKA Jewish new year, and I've decided everybody should get in on it. With Covid-19, climate breakdown, climate breakdown denial, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, endless lockdowns and a government steeped in sociopathy making life a collective nightmare, I invite all non-Jews to put on their party hats and choose hope, joy and honey cake this evening.

Why are we counting down to midnight in early September? It's not because we're bad at time. I mean, we did spend 40 years wandering an objectively small desert, but that just makes us bad at wandering. No, celebrating a new year four months shy of January is a calendar thing.