Winter Green Festival: A Tu B’Shvat Celebration

It may be winter, but in the Jewish calendar, it is also time to celebrate the approaching spring with Tu B’Shvat, a kind of New Year’s festival honoring trees and their fruit. This event at the Museum at Eldridge Street will focus on family trees as well as physical ones. Children can enjoy a traditional Tu B’Shvat Seder, join a genealogy workshop, go on tours of the “green” restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue and enjoy a concert by Bash the Trash, which uses instruments made from recycled objects. (Young visitors can also create their own.)