TABERNACLE 5786: antizionist jewish maker's market
~~~~TLDR~~~~
Tabernacle, an anti-Zionist Jewish makers market, is returning for its second year!
✸Expect live music, Hanukkah candle lighting, food, ritual objects, and handmade art.
✸$7-$72 sliding scale tickets, proceeds to mutual aid.
✸Masks required outdoors 12-1, optional 1-5 Masks required indoors 12-5 (more accessibility info below)
We are so excited to have the opportunity to bring in the first night of Hanukkah together. See you there!
~~~~TICKETS~~~~
To attend the market, attendees must purchase a sliding-scale ticket (paid by venmo or cash at the door), the cost of which will be 100% donated to mutual aid efforts supporting those impacted by genocidal nation-states in Palestine and here in the Bay. In addition to entry into the market, your ticket will enter you into a raffle to win one of a number of pieces donated by vendors. Vendors will otherwise be selling their own work to support themselves.
$7 - Mitzvah - attendance + 1 raffle ticket
$18 - Mensch - attendance + 2 raffle tickets
$36 - Melech - attendance + 3 raffle tickets
$72 - Shechinah - attendance + 4 raffle tickets
Please RSVP so we can be ready to host you and let our vendors know how many people we may expect!
~~~~ACCESSIBILITY~~~~
The event will be mostly outdoors, with a few vendors in an indoor space where doors will be open for airflow. We'll require masks indoors for the entirety of the event, as well as outdoors for the first hour (12-1). The event will be in a spacious, mostly flat outdoor space with some rocky paths. There is a ramp for access to the building as well as stairs. There is a bathroom inside the building. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please email [email protected] or on our Instagram linked above.
~~~~Day-of Details~~~~
😷 masks are required indoors for the entirety of the event, as well as outdoors for the first hour (12-1)
🎻 the @krekhts will be playing 3-4:15
🎟️ raffle winners will be announced at 4:30. your entry to Tabernacle costs $7-$72 and will get you 1+ ticket to enter to win an item made by our amazing vendors. all ticket sales donated to mutual aid to folks in Gaza.
🕎 join us in welcoming the first night of chanukah around 4:40. We are delighted to have Arielle T leading us in a candle lighting ritual. may the flames help light our way towards collective liberation ❤️🔥
~~~~SPIEL~~~~
We are a collective of anti-Zionist Jewish artists hosting a local craft market rooted in care for makers and solidarity with Palestine. Inundated by mass-produced schlock, we lust for care-full ritual objects and handmade art crafted in the diaspora. We crave a thriving craft economy that roots us to this land and weakens the economic and cultural dominance of genocidal nation-states. We seek to sew the seeds of slowness and beauty to enhance our capacities to struggle for collective liberation. We desire space to gather & conspire as we forge Judaisms beyond Zionism.
In the Torah, the Tabernacle, or Mishkan, was a portable dwelling space adorned with intricate crafts and stewarded with devotion. Against the Zionist logic that Jewish divinity must be found on the lands of historic Palestine, the Tabernacle offers a Diasporic alternative, an invitation to thriving cultures of solidarity and prayer rooted wherever we may find ourselves.
We’ve rebuilt the Tabernacle as an anti-Zionist Jewish makers market and craft festival that will be held on December 14, 2025 / 24 Kislev 5786. In the midst of this season thick with uncertainty and darkness, on the first night of Hanukkah, we return to Tabernacle committed to creating pockets to gather, celebrate light, and practice solidary. Among the many items on sale, you can expect to find handcrafted candles and ritual Judaica, garments and fiberwork, food, music, prints, and other artwork featuring themes and symbology of our diverse Judaisms and struggles for liberation. The event will cumulate in a candle lighting to bring in the first night of Hanukah.