Event Highlights

Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival

Sunday, June 10 from 12-4pm

Celebrate the Jewish and Chinese communities of our neighborhood at NYC's best block party!

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Ways We Worship

Ways We Worship

The Museum’s Ways We Worship is a dynamic new initiative focusing on Jewish practice in America. Step into the footsteps of the Eldridge Street Synagogue's immigrant parishioners. Learn about Jewish rituals, objects and culture first-hand. Discover how Jewish practice has been maintained, adapted and innovated upon in America. Encompassing a new tour, lectures and other educational experiences.


Preservation Detectives

Preservation Detectives

Hunt for history in the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue in a fun-filled family program. Become a Preservation Detective and use a magnifying glass, binoculars and notepad, along with your ingenuity and imagination. Families will sleuth their way through our historic landmark and discover the past through interactive activities and art making. Each month features a different theme and reveals the mysteries of architecture, history, and Jewish culture.

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Lost and Found Music

Lost and Found Music

The Eldridge Street Synagogue was designed to highlight the voices of preeminent religious singers, or cantors. Lost and Found Music honors that legacy with concerts of Jewish music beloved by the Synagogue's turn-of-the-century parishioners, as well as other Yiddish musical forms that are at risk of disappearing. An annual festival highlights one musical instrument common to many, such as the accordion, fiddle or dulcimer, to build bridges across cultures.


April

Sundays, April 15, 22 & 29 • 11 am

Hidden Spaces and (kind of) Creepy Places

Wedding

Cobwebs on the ceiling, a hole in the wall, and what do you think is behind that door? Calling all Preservation Detectives to the Museum at Eldridge Street for a fun-filled scavenger hunt! Gran your binoculars, turn on your flashlights, and get ready to find hidden spaces - and a couple of creepy places - up, down, and all around the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue.

$15 per family

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Tuesdays, April 17, 24, May 1, 8 from 11 am to 12:30 pm

You're Just Like Your Mother! But Are You?

Seminar with Scholar-in- Residence Dr. Regina Stein

How does the way we live as American Jews compare with our mothers' and grandmothers' experiences? Come explore the ways we love, learn, work and play as individuals, families and communities have changed (or not) over the generations.

$15 per session; $50 for all four
This event is supported in part by New York Council on the Humanities and The Edouard Foundation

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Sunday, April 29 at 3 pm

Film Screening: Avalon

This classic 1990 coming-to-America film is part of director Barry Levinson’s autobiographical “Baltimore Trilogy.”  Starring Aidan Quinn, Elijah Wood and Armin Mueller-Stahl, Avalon traces the foibles and fortunes of a Polish-Jewish immigrant family for nearly forty years.

Free with Museum admission

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