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

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

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

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.

May

Sunday • May 13 • 11 am

Yiddishe Mamas - Mother's Day Walking Tour

Start a new family tradition this Mother’s Day and discover your roots on our Lower East Side walking tour. We'll fete you with rugelach, bagels and coffee and then follow in the footsteps of strong-willed women associated with our gateway neighborhood. Hear about free-thinker Emma Goldman, Henry Street founder Lillian Wald, and mikvah operator Gittel Natelson. Stops include the Lower East Side’s old red light district, NYC’s oldest operating mikvah, and former famed shops and eateries.

$25 per person

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Sundays May 13 & 20 • 11 am

All of a Kind Family Fun Walking Tour

Our warm weather favorite for families with children ages 5-10. Follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, the beloved sisters of Sydney Taylor's classic novel, All of a Kind Family. Explore the old neighborhood and see where children played, shopped, and grew up a century ago. Along the way, buy pickles from a barrel and a treat (or two!) from a favorite neighborhood candy store. Part of the Preservation Detectives Family Program Series.

$15 per family

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Wednesday • May 16 • 7 pm

An Evening in the Catskills

Simon says: You will have the time of your life at an evening inspired by the fun-filled ambience of the Borscht Belt, the Catskills famed summer vacation region. Enjoy a musical, magical revue by Yiddish vaudevillian Shane Baker and pianist Steve Sterner. Be the last one standing at a wicked game of Simon Says. Try your hand at Canasta and Bingo and enjoy revelry with tummler Doug LeBlang. Wine, beer and Creamsicles for sale.

$20 adults; $15 students and seniors; $10 for our Facebook friends

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Wednesday • May 30 • 7 pm

In Conversation: Rabbi Elliot Dorff and Dr. Regina Stein

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University, explores the confluence of medical technology and Jewish law and ethics, particularly as related to beginning and end of life issues in a conversation with the Museum’s Scholar-in Residence Dr. Regina Stein.

$25 adults; $18; students and seniors

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June