Still, Touro Synagogue stands as a symbol of religious freedom in Rhode Island and a place that welcomes all. A woman from New Jersey on the tour marveled at the centuries-old building.

The Touro Synagogue Foundation, a nonprofit and non-sectarian organization whose mission is to promote religious diversity, issued a statement the week of June 2 saying that the landlord ...

Touro Synagogue, at 72 Touro Street, at 7 p.m. Friday night and at 8:45 a.m. Saturday morning. It would seem only fair and balanced to do that. This story has been updated with new information.

Touro Synagogue, America’s oldest synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island. (Photo credit: Adobe Stock/Faina Gurevich) While disagreements among elements of a Jewish community are hardly a rare phenomenon, ...

NEWPORT, R.I. – Public tours inside Newport’s Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the United States, have come to a halt after the foundation that administers the tours was blocked from ...

Consecrated in 1763, Touro Synagogue is the oldest existing synagogue building in the nation. “If there was ever a case that cried out for mediation, based on what I’ve read it’s this one.

Founders of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, above included Sephardic Jewish families who belonged to New York's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in the 1700s.

Touro Synagogue will be led by a board with membership taken from both the Newport and New York congregations, with a board of overseers drawn from greater Rhode Island and elsewhere in the United ...

Rabbi Marc Mandel’s voice filled Touro Synagogue one recent Saturday morning, drifting past the wooden columns that line the basilica and rising toward the women’s gallery, just as the voices ...

Meanwhile, Solomon stressed that tours of the synagogue will resume this Friday, but not with the Touro Synagogue Foundation. He said Congregation Shearith Israel found someone else to host the tours.

NEW ORLEANS — The blowing of the shofar, the sacred ram’s horn marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days. “Rosh Hashanah” means “head of the year” in Hebrew. The two-day holiday ...