The Chinese and Jewish communities of the Lower East Side will come together for annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival on Eldridge St. (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge St. between Canal & Division Sts.
Sunday, June 12, 12 noon – 4:00 pm
Admission: free
212-219-0302
www.eldridgestreet.org
The eleventh annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams block party will bring together the Jewish and Chinese communities of the Lower East Side on June 12 for what is always a fun day of food and drink, live music and dance, history, culture, and lots more. Among the highlights of the festival are the kosher egg creams and egg rolls, yarmulke and challah workshops, tea ceremonies, a genealogy clinic, Yiddish and Chinese lessons, Hebrew and Chinese calligraphy classes, mah jongg, cantorial songs, Jewish paper cutting and Chinese paper folding, face painting, and free tours (in English and Chinese) of the wonderfully renovated Eldridge St. Synagogue, which now boasts the East Window designed by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans. Last year’s performers, many of whom will be back again on Sunday, included the Chinatown Senior Center Folk Orchestra, Qi Shu Fang’s Peking Opera, the Shashmaqam Bukharan Jewish Cultural Group, Ray Muziker Klezmer Ensemble, and Cantor Eric Freeman.