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, performed the ...

PROVIDENCE – The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a ruling that a New York congregation could oust the Jewish congregation that has called Newport's historic Touro Synagogue home for more than a ...

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 PROVIDENCE – Public tours inside Newport’s Touro ...

On the day of my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I understood how deeply the building had woven itself into my own family history and connected us to the shared Jewish experiences of previous generations I am ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Mediation has failed between the nation’s oldest synagogue and first Jewish congregation, whose leaders are suing each other over a set of valuable Colonial-era Torah finial ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A bitter struggle for control over the nation’s oldest synagogue goes to trial this week, with lawyers saying they may use more than 1,000 exhibits dating as far back as 1733. The ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Craig and Cathy Bell were saddened to learn that the historic Touro Synagogue has temporarily stopped offering tours. The Bells traveled from Long Island to Newport to celebrate ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — The Touro Synagogue was barely 25 years old when George Washington offered a vision of religious tolerance in a letter he sent its congregants. The new American government, the ...

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday the shofar, the traditional ram's horn, is scheduled to sound a call to prayer in the packed sanctuary of Touro Synagogue, signalling the moment Touro's usual Shabbat ...

Jewish community members and faith leaders will gather at Touro Synagogue to oppose Louisiana’s proposed use of gas suffocation as a method of execution. The press conference, organized by the ...

The Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld a ruling allowing Congregation Shearith Israel to evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel from Touro Synagogue in Newport. Congregation Shearith Israel plans a seamless ...