BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Rhode Island Historical Society - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Rhode Island Historical Society X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.rihs.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Rhode Island Historical Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230219T143000 DTSTAMP:20240329T092525 CREATED:20230120T163111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T144528Z UID:46422-1676813400-1676817000@www.rihs.org SUMMARY:Valley Talks: “B’nai Israel: Woonsocket’s Gorgeous but Little-Known Synagogue” DESCRIPTION:Valley Talks\, a series of biweekly historical lectures by the Museum of Work & Culture\, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society\, continues Sunday\, February 19 at 1:30pm on Zoom. \nJoin historian George M. Goodwin as he discusses Woonsocket’s B’nai Israel synagogue\, designed by synagogue architect Samuel Glaser\, and its importance to Rhode Island’s Jewish community. Woonsocket’s Jewish congregation\, B’nai Israel\, was founded in 1893\, but did not build its own synagogue until 1962. Unfortunately\, the congregation’s membership reached a peak of about 200 families during the 1960s. In recent decades\, having struggled to survive\, it now faces an uncertain future. What will become of Glaser’s masterpiece? \nIndividuals can register for the talk by visiting: https://bit.ly/3CAUX23 \nGoodwin is an art and architectural historian with a special interest in synagogues. He has served on the board of Rhode Island Historical Society. A past president of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association\, Goodwin has edited its journal\, Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes\, for almost two decades. He also co-edited The Jews of Rhode Island\, which was copublished by the University Press of New England and Brandeis University Press in 2004. He and his wife\, Betsey\, live in a 1920 Arts & Crafts bungalow\, once the youngest “plaque house” honored by the Providence Preservation Society. \nOther Valley Talks will include: \nMarch 5: Writer Melody Desjardins will examine the relationship between French-Canadian folklore and current day Franco-Americans in search of a deeper connection between the two. URL:https://www.rihs.org/event/valley-talks-bnai-israel-woonsockets-gorgeous-but-little-known-synagogue/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Event,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://storage.googleapis.com/stateless-www-rihs-org/2023/01/IMG_2139.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Work & Culture":MAILTO:mowc@rihs.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR