The Yiddish Food Festival will be held on Sunday, May 17, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., at the Mount Sinai Synagogue, 2610 Pioneer Ave., Cheyenne. The event is free and open to the public.
To buy food or craft and gift items, money is exchanged for traditional shekels with $1 for each shekel. Tours of the synagogue will be available at 12:15 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. A storytelling workshop on Hassidic Tales by Rabbi Arrina Moon will be held at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. An hourly raffle drawing for prizes begins at noon.
For more information, call 634-3052 or 632-3206.
Event highlights include: Noon to 12:45 p.m., Live Klezmer music with Boulder Klezmer Consort and dancing; 12:45 p.m. to 1:15 p.m., Israeli and Jewish folk dances performed by the Mount Sinai Dance Group.
Partial listing of food items: Chicken soup with matzah balls, stuffed cabbage, potato latkes, corned beef sandwiches, bagel with cream cheese and lox, Hummus, Israeli salad, challah, rugelach, hammentashen, Mandelbrot, honey cake.
