Jewish and Chinese cultures are intertwined this coming weekend when the Museum at Eldridge Street throws a big street party: the Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival. The popular event will feature performances of Peking Opera, klezmer music, Chinese...
Craft beers and arts & crafts inside the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue? Why not! The Museum at Eldridge Street's "After Hours" get-together for people in their 20's and 30's is coming up next week. In the past there have...
It was packed on Eldridge Street yesterday, as locals and visitors alike checked out the annual "Eggs Rolls and Egg Creams" Festival. The quintessential multicultural event, celebrating the Jewish and Chinese influences on the Lower East Side, is sponsored...
Coming up on Sunday, it's a quintessential Lower East Side event -- "Egg Rolls & Egg Creams" at the Museum at Eldridge Street. The celebration of the Jewish and Chinese cultures intermingling on Eldridge Street takes place between noon...
The weathered change purse pictured above was a flea market find but for Benjamin Feldman is turned out to be much more than that. After purchasing the item for $15, he set out on a six-month personal sleuthing mission. ...
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As we mentioned this morning, Hanukkah begins at sundown tonight. Here are a few events happening on the Lower East Side in connection with the Festival of Lights.
On Thursday at 5:30 p.m., Chabad of the Lower East Side will...
For the next two Sundays, the Museum at Eldridge Street is inviting families to explore its space as part of its History Illuminated Family Program. The synagogue, which dates back to 1887, underwent a 20-year, $18.5 million renovation which was completed in...
On Sunday, the Museum at Eldridge Street presents a screening of "The Jazz Singer," the classic 1927 "talkie" in which Jakie Rabinowitz rebels against his observant father. As the museum says on its blog, the Al Jolson film is...
We're not in the habit of posting network television promos here, but in this case we'll make an exception. It seems Gwyneth Paltrow's ancestral search on the NBC reality show, "Who Do You Think You Are," leads her to...
