Tours of Touro were cut-off weeks after Congregation Shearith filed a new lawsuit against the former congregation.

N EWPORT – The years-long legal saga between two Jewish congregations over the historic Touro Synagogue – perhaps thought to be finally resolved last month – isn’t over.

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.

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.

The Touro Synagogue Foundation, which has conducted tours for nearly 80 years, will continue presentations at the Loeb Visitors Center and Patriots' Park.

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, ...

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 ...

The court ruled a New York congregation can evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which has worshiped at Touro Synagogue for more than a century NEWPORT, R.I. — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ...

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.

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, 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.