Join Tzedek Collective for an antizionist Pesach Seder, a traditional ritual of liberation and identity transformed into one of community care and respite for activists, to allow us to regroup and renew our efforts.

Radical ritual and storytelling
Discussion
Children’s program [TBC]
Potluck dinner (optional contributions; please see notes below for requirements)
Alcohol-free event
Anti-Zionist Jews and allies welcome

Further details

Tzedek Collective invites you to our antizionist Pesach Seder. Pesach is a central Jewish holiday that analyses histories of power and oppression, and calls on us to reflect on our own experiences of and roles in these societal dynamics. Its core is ultimately a message of liberation and self-determination. However, it is also a holiday weaponised by both Zionists and antisemites to perpetuate systems of oppression.

We will be following radical, liberatory Pesach traditions with a focus on critical discussion of the dynamics of power and oppression. We take a specific focus on Palestinian oppression and how, as Jews, we cannot stay silent in the face of the dispossession, displacement, statelessness and indefinite refugee status, and massacring of Palestinians.

We welcome all antizionist allies to join us for our Seder, whether Jewish or not Jewish. We also welcome Jews who are questioning Zionism and would like to connect with more liberatory practices.

For more information about Pesach, see our FAQ.

RSVP

This will be a seated event and capacity is limited. Location details will be provided after registration. If you register and then can no longer attend, please let us know via Humanitix (click “manage order” in your confirmation email).

Ticketing and donations

Standard paid tickets ($10) will help us cover the cost of hall hire and insurance ($520). There is an option to pay more than $10 to sponsor an attendee in financial need. NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds); if you cannot afford $10, please select the relevant option for a free ticket, or to pay what you can under $10. Children attend free. Any funds raised in excess of our requirements for this event, and donations in the donation section, will be divided evenly between Iman and her children, a Palestinian family whom one of our members has been fundraising for; and Mob Strong, a First Nations mutual aid fundraiser.

Food and beverages

Pesach essentials (seder plates, grape juice and matza) will be provided. This is an alcohol-free event.

If you want and are able to, please bring a plate for the potluck shulchan orech (dinner). All food must be vegan or vegetarian (no meat or fish) and kosher for Pesach (no yeasted products, wheat, rye, barley, spelt, or oats). Dishes with and without kitniyot (legumes that swell when cooked in water — e.g. beans, corn, rice) are welcome. Our community's standard of kashrut is that ingredients should follow the above requirements, but we do not expect your kitchen to be strictly kosher/kosher for Pesach. Please note that the proceedings before the meal are quite long and heating/cooling options for food will be limited, so bring food that can be served at room temperature if possible. Bring serving implements if you can! Please contact us if you have any questions about these requirements.

Some attendees may be fasting in recognition of the harms of Zionist violence of Palestinians for 76 years and particularly in the past year and a half. Other attendees will not be fasting, and some are unable to fast due to accessibility requirements. We welcome either choice.

Accessibility

Please let us know your accessibility needs in your registration and we will do our best to accommodate them.

The venue has an at-grade entry and accessible toilet facilities.

The venue is close to a train station and multiple bus routes. Timed street parking is available nearby (not sufficient for the length of the event without moving your car), with fewer parking restrictions a little further away. If transportation is an accessibility barrier for you, please let us know and we will try to facilitate a carpooling arrangement though this cannot be guaranteed.

Image: Mathilde Hahn Meyer, late 19th to early 20th century, oil on canvas depicting Pesach seder table featuring matza, seder plate and haggadot.