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Visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, July 30, 2009. (AP/Eric J. Shelton)
August 10, 2017, 4:12 am
Losing side wants review in fight over oldest US synagogue
Local community challenges ruling putting Rhode Island building, and $7.4 million decorative silver bells it houses, under control of NY-based congregation
By Michelle R. Smith
Touro Synagogue, nestled in historic Newport, Rhode Island, is the oldest extant synagogue in the United States, seen on September 2, 2004. (John Nordell/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images/via JTA)
August 6, 2017, 4:48 am
Who owns America’s oldest synagogue? It’s a 350-year-old argument
Touro, built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island, looms large in US Jewish history; it has also come to signify the tension between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews
By Ben Sales
Visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, July 30, 2009. (AP/Eric J. Shelton)
August 3, 2017, 2:10 pm
Appeals court decides fate of oldest synagogue in US
Federal judges rule that Rhode Island building, and $7.4 million decorative silver bells it houses, under control of NY-based Jewish congregation
By AP
The title page of the 1516 Genoese Polyglot Psalter (courtesy of Kestenbaum & Co.)
March 10, 2017, 10:41 am
Unread copy of 16th-century multilingual Psalms, loathed by Columbus’s son, up for auction
Also on the block at NY sale next week, first printing of a George Washington speech to Congress with a shout-out to the Rhode Island Jewish community
By Ilan Ben Zion
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic candidate for vice president, visiting the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, Aug. 17, 2016. (Facebook via JTA)
August 18, 2016, 8:37 pm
Kaine visits Touro Synagogue, takes aim at Trump
Democratic VP candidate tours oldest shul in US, 226 years to the day after Washington pledged support for religious freedom there
By JTA
The historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, 2005 (AP/Joe Giblin)
June 15, 2016, 9:42 am
Congregation to file appeal in fight for oldest US synagogue
Shearith Israel of New York and Touro Synagogue in Newport also battling for control of precious ceremonial bells
By AP
The Myers rimonim at the center of the Touro synagogue dispute. (Courtesy: Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
September 19, 2015, 6:58 am
Trial over US’s oldest synagogue, $7.4m Torah bells, draws to close
Judge says there is ‘no smoking gun’ in battle over Touro Synagogue’s ‘rimonim,’ hasn’t specified date for decision
By Michelle R. Smith
Newport's Touro Synagogue (photo credit: Courtesy)
April 24, 2015, 7:20 am
State to play Solomon in tussle over US’s oldest synagogue
Court green-lights Rhode Island to intervene in dispute between congregations over who owns Touro Synagogue’s bells
By AP
US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. (YouTube)
August 20, 2013, 1:42 am
Kagan: US ‘political liberty’ led to Supreme Court
Jewish justice invokes Yiddish-speaking grandparents during reading of George Washington’s famed letter on religious liberty
By JTA
August 15, 2013, 7:12 pm
Mediation fails in US dispute over ritual objects
Two of the country’s oldest synagogues battle over proposed multimillion-dollar sale of Torah adornments
By JTA
Torah finial bells (photo credit: CC-BY-SA, Jorge Royan, Wikimedia Commons)
January 12, 2013, 12:43 am
US judge mediating in Torah scroll dispute urges sides to maintain media silence
Court case between country’s oldest Jewish centers focuses on sale of $7.4 million set of Torah finial bells
Dudi Sela (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
July 10, 2012, 2:10 am
Dudi Sela advances in Newport tourney
Israel’s top tennis pro breezes into second round
By Sam Ser
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