Updates on the Touro Synagogue

Here you can access some useful recent communications and reports about Shearith Israel’s actions in connection to the Touro Synagogue.

Shearith Israel’s Open Letters to the Newport Community

Click here for the message Shearith Israel’s leadership sent to the Shearith Israel community.

Click here to read the Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel’s officers and clergy on February 3, 2022.

Click here to read the 2nd Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel’s officers and clergy on February 10, 2022.

Click here to read the 3rd Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel’s officers and clergy on February 17, 2022.

Click here to read the 4th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel’s officers and clergy on February 24, 2022.

Click here to read the 5th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on March 3, 2022.

Click here to read the 6th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on March 10, 2022.

Click here to read the 7th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on March 17, 2022.

Click here to read the 8th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on March 24, 2022.

Click here to read the 9th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on March 31, 2022.

Click here to read the 10th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Rev. Zachary Edinger on April 7, 2022.

Click here to read our 11th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Rev. Zachary Edinger on April 14, 2022.

Click here to read the 12th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on April 21, 2022.

Click here to read the 13th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on April 29, 2022.

Click here to read the 14th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on May 5, 2022.

Click here to read the 15th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on May 12, 2022.

Click here to read the 16th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on May 19, 2022.

Click here to read the 17th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on May 26, 2022.

Click here to read the 18th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on June 2, 2022.

Click here to read the 19th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on June 9, 2022.

Click here to read the 20th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Louis M. Solomon, Parnas of Congregation Shearith Israel on June 23, 2022.

Click here to read the 21st Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on June 30, 2022.

Click here to read the 22nd Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on July 21, 2022.

Click here to read the 23rd Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on October 27, 2022.

Click here to read the 24th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on December 29, 2022.

Click here to read the 25th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on January 5, 2023.

Click here to read the 26th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on February 2, 2023.

Click here to read the 27th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on July 21, 2023.

Click here to read the joint statement issued by Congregation Shearith Israel and Congregation Ahavath Israel on August 29, 2023.

Click here to read the 28th Open Letter to the Newport community sent by Shearith Israel on September 7, 2023.

Click here to read more communications from our Leadership to our Congregation, including to our Touro Synagogue Affiliates.

Other Related Press

Click here to read The Providence Journal article from September 1, 2023, describing the new Congregation, Congregation Ahavath Israel of Newport, and its commitment to partner with Shearith Israel in reviving the Newport Jewish community and the place Touro Synagogue has in the hearts and minds of Jews all over America.

Click here to read the Jewish Telegraphic Agency article from August 28, 2023, by Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor at large of the New York Jewish Week and managing editor for Ideas for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Click here to view this 11+ minute episode of Rhode Island PBS Weekly, aired on April 17, 2022, in which reporter, David Wright, provides history and background, and speaks to the president of Jeshuat Israel and the parnas of Congregation Shearith Israel.

Click here to read a comprehensive analysis by Aaron Ginsberg in Jewish Boston on February 16, 2022.

Click here to read history and background to the current matter, provided by The Economist on February 12, 2022.

Click here to read the Jewish Week article from February 4, 2022 by Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor in chief of The New York Jewish Week and senior editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Click here to listen to the February 3 broadcast on The Public’s Radio (the NPR member radio network for the state of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts) by Newport reporter Antonia Ayres-Brown.