The ruling, issued Thursday, would evict the leadership of Congregation Jeshuat Israel, or CJI, which has been meeting at the Touro synagogue, America’s oldest, since the early 1900s.

Rabbi Isaac Touro— the synagogue’s eventual namesake and a ... newly inaugurated President George Washington visited Newport during a tour of New England. The warden of the synagogue, Moses ...

The high court on Monday declined to take up the case that gave control of the Newport, Rhode Island-based Touro Synagogue building and its pricey artifacts to a similarly historic congregation in ...