Rhode Island's first Reform synagogue and the Masonic fraternity
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 at
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Abraham RedwoodIn 1877, a number of Jewish Freemasons living in Providence decided to join together to form a new Masonic lodge, Redwood Lodge Number 35. According to Redwood Lodge's tradition, the group's leader, Myer Noot, envisioned a lodge …