Newport’s local congregation, Jeshuat Israel, was recently evicted from the synagogue they have occupied for 140 years.

Touro Synagogue, consecrated in 1763, has stood as a national symbol of religious freedom since George Washington’s 1790 letter to the congregation, in which he said the young nation “gives to ...

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The state Supreme Court in April upheld a ruling that Congregation Shearith could evict the Jewish congregation that has called Touro Synagogue home for more than a century. The high court upheld ...

By Gerard Leval Several decades ago, my wife and I were married under the candlelit chandeliers of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. The congregation’s longtime rabbi, Theodore Lewis, ...

The Touro Synagogue is a synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, that is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States, Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Touro Synagogue has ...

Public tours of the nation’s oldest synagogue came to a halt earlier this week when the Touro Synagogue Foundation was barred from the building By Christopher Gavin Globe Staff,Updated June 5 ...

RI VOICES For the evicted congregation, Touro Synagogue was never just a building On the day of my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I understood how deeply the building had woven itself into my own ...

Shearith Israel was the initial occupant of Touro Synagogue, but relocated to New York in the early 19th century, when the size of Newport’s Jewish community plummeted. At that time Shearith ...

Touro’s leaders say Congregation Shearith Israel is only a trustee for the Newport synagogue and can’t dictate what is done there.

Globe RI & 12 News Newport’s Touro Synagogue at center of new lawsuit by: Kayla Fish, Christopher Gavin, Raymond Baccari Posted: May 15, 2025 / 05:27 PM EDT Updated: May 15, 2025 / 05:27 PM EDT ...