Join us on Zoom for a special talk from exhibition curator Kenneth Helphand! Get Tickets Join exhibition curator Kenneth Helphand on Zoom to discuss the Elaine and Norman Winik Mezuzah Collection, currently on view at the Museum at Eldridge Street. This seminar will not only touch upon examples ... Read more
Adult Education Zoom Series with Dr. Regina Stein Get Tickets In honor of Women’s History Month, we will study the Book of Ruth against the background of some of the laws and values presented in Deuteronomy. How did Biblical characters respond to threats to their ... Read more
Join us on Zoom for another installment of our Cinema Chats series! Get Tickets Armageddon Time (2022) is a deeply personal coming of age story. Writer-director, James Gray, excavates his own past as a twelve year old Jewish boy growing up in 1980’s Queens. He explores his ... Read more
Join us on Zoom for a special Passover seminar with Rabbi Bodner. Get Tickets The Children of Israel were enslaved for hundreds of years in Egypt, but for how long and why does this matter? Join us for a Zoom study session with Rabbi Aviad Bodner, in preparation ... Read more
Join writers Rebecca Faulkner, Hanna Griff-Sleven, and Amy Stein-Milford at the Museum for a reception, reading, and discussion. Get Tickets Join us in the Museum at Eldridge Street's stunning Main Sanctuary for an evening with writers and former Museum at Eldridge Street staff members Rebecca Faulkner, Hanna ... Read more
Colorful fun for all ages! Get Tickets At the Museum at Eldridge Street, the more than sixty stained glass windows serve many important roles. From capturing natural light to displaying a beautiful design, the colorful shapes and patterns bring the synagogue to life. Learn about the ... Read more
Stroll through the neighborhood's 100-year-old history! Get Tickets One hundred years ago, there were as many as 500 synagogues dotting the streets of the Lower East Side. Only a few, like the Museum’s landmark building and the Bialystocker Synagogue, still exist in their original form; ... Read more
Join us on Zoom for a three-part Adult Education series with Dr. Michael Nevins. Get Tickets What characterizes "Jewish medicine?" In this virtual three-course block, we will explore what defines a Jewish, or “Jew-ish”, approach to health care from earliest times to the present. Along ... Read more
Join Museum at Eldridge Street Docent Jason Bohner for a new tour centered around the history of activism on the Lower East Side! Get Tickets At the turn of the twentieth century, roughly 1.5 million Ashkenazi Jews descended on the Lower East Side in search ... Read more
Join us on Zoom as we learn about why Jews settled in Eastern Europe and what their lives looked like there through the centuries. Get Tickets The Eldridge Street Synagogue, which now houses the Museum at Eldridge Street, was built by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe ... Read more
Join us at the Museum for a panel discussion about the New York City food scene - past, present, and future! Get Tickets "June Hersh is the beloved cartographer of the collective memory of Jewish food. A decade after her award-winning book "Recipes Remembered: A ... Read more
Join us on Zoom for another installment of our Cinema Chats series! Get Tickets The Fablemans (2022), directed by Steven Spielberg, stars Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, and Judd Hersch. The film has been nominated for the upcoming Academy Awards in seven categories, including Best ... Read more