CSI CJI Timeline

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• CJI responds to eviction notice

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• first letter from CSI to worshippers at Touro Synagogue

• CSI files to evict CJI from Touro Synagogue

• January 31, 2022 Annual lease ends after CJI declines to agree to suggested stipulations. Lease started in 1903 and was $1 per year.

• January 31, 2022 CSI attempts to reach CJI to head off eviction. Attempt fails.

• October 2021 brouhaha over a monument erected in Colonial Jewish cemetery in Newport

• October? 2021 CSI tells CJI what conditions they will accept to continue lease.

• 2019 Supreme Court of United States declines to hear appeal

• 2019 Boston Federal appeals court overturns Provicence Federal District Court decision, says CSI owns Touro Synagogue and its appertuances.

• US District Court Providence rules that CJI own Touro Synagogue and its appurtances .

• CJI attempts to sell Meyer Meir rimonim

• 1908 Lease agreement

• 1903 Lease agreement

• 1903 break-in and sit-in to open Touro Synagogue. Trial judge declines to discuss ownership of Touro Synagogue

• 1903? Touro Syngogue is closed to worshippers

• 1894 Congregation Jeshuat Israel is chartered by the State of Rhode Island.