Loeb Visitors Center

Name: Loeb Visitors Center
Address: 52 Spring Street, Newport, RI, 02840, US
Telephone: +14018470070
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The Loeb Visitors Center is home to an array of interactive exhibits and also the starting point of
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The Loeb Visitors Center is home to an array of interactive exhibits that tell the story of how the principle of religious freedom was established in America. It is the starting point for tours of the historic Touro Synagogue and other area tours.

08/13/2024

HONORING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Join us Sunday, August 18 at 1 pm EST via Facebook Live for the 77th Annual George Washington Letter Reading at Touro Synagogue - Newport, RI. Click to enlarge and read the event program graphic.
To learn more about the annual George Washington Letter Reading, please visit this webpage:
https://tourosynagogue.org/touro-synagogue-foundation/george-washington-letter-reading/
INQUIRES: [email protected]

01/08/2024

The public tour program at Touro Synagogue is on winter hiatus Jan-Feb, reopening for the 2024 Season in the spring. The synagogue and Loeb Visitors Center will be open Sun. Feb. 18 from 10 am-2 pm for a special Newport Winter Festival Open House.

While the site is closed, please enjoy our wonderful new History, Architecture & Religious Liberty Virtual Tour: https://hullfilm360.com/projects/touro/360tour/

(Photo of Touro Synagogue by Rabbi Stephen Belsky, taken just before sunset on Jan. 7, 2024, during Newport's first snowstorm of the season)
https://tourosynagogue.org/

11/22/2023

GIVING TUESDAY 2023 IS NOV. 28
Sharing this message on behalf of our Touro Synagogue Foundation colleagues:
We must continue to celebrate and embrace the free exercise of religion and “give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” Every person has the right to practice their chosen religion freely and without fear. With your help, the Touro Synagogue Foundation will continue to teach and promote religious diversity and equality. To make a GivingTuesday gift in any amount, click this link to our secure Network for Good donation portal: https://www.nfggive.com/donation/05-0255359

09/15/2023

🍎Wishing everyone peace, happiness & good health in the new year!🐝

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52 Spring Street
Newport, RI
02840

Telephone

+14018470070

Website

https://www.loebvisitors.org/

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The Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Visitors Center is home to an array of interactive exhibits that tell the story of religious freedom and tolerance in Rhode Island and how it led to the establishment of religious freedom as a fundamental right in the United States. At the core of the Center’s exhibits is President George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport. In his letter, Washington promised that the government of the United States would give “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” The Loeb Visitors Center is the starting point for guided tours of Touro Synagogue, our nation’s oldest synagogue, dedicated in 1763, and other area tours. A “virtual” tour of the Loeb Visitors Center is available on www.LoebVisitors.org for those who are unable to visit in person. Direct link to Virtual Tour: http://jewishhistory.com/TOURO/visitorcenter/