Moses Michael Hays courageously stood before the ruling government and religious authorities in Newport to assert his right to religious freedom.

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.

The Touro Synagogue is open for short tours Sunday through Friday from May until Oct. 30. Between Oct. 31 and the end of April, tours are only offered during select times.

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.

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 ...

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, 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.