Topic - Touro Synagogue

The Touro Synagogue is a 1763 synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, that is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States, the oldest surviving Jewish synagogue building in North America, and the only surviving synagogue building in the U.S. dating to the colonial era. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - Employees Chuck Flippo, right, and Asa Montgomery walk through Patriots Park, Thursday, May 28, 2015, at the Touro Synagogue, the nation's oldest, in Newport, R.I. On Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, the New York-based Congregation Shearith Israel filed a court motion to take control of Touro Synagogue by ejecting its current tenants, the Newport-based Congregation Jeshuat Israel. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Congregation facing eviction from nation’s oldest synagogue

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FILE - In this July 30, 2009 file photo, visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, R.I., the oldest existing Jewish house of worship in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday, March 18, 2019, not to take up the case over control of the synagogue, which means a lower court ruling that a New York synagogue has ownership, stays in place. (AP Photo/Eric J. Shelton, File)

Supreme Court won’t intervene in oldest US synagogue dispute

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Congregants in synagogue struggle say decision ignored law

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FILE - In this July 30, 2009 file photo, visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston announced Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that the nation’s oldest synagogue, Shearith Israel, had won its case over the ownership of Touro Synagogue, in Newport, the nation’s oldest synagogue building. The appeals court ruled that Shearith Israel owns both the synagogue building and historical Jewish ritual objects that have gone with the synagogue. (AP Photo/Eric J. Shelton, File)

Appeals court decides fate of nation’s oldest synagogue

By Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo, the Touro Synagogue, the nation's oldest, stands in Newport, R.I. A federal appeals court is wading into the battle over control of the nation's oldest synagogue and ownership of a set of ceremonial bells. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Fight over control of oldest US synagogue at appeals court

By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press

Rift between oldest synagogue, Jewish congregation

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