Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

Before he left Syria for the United States in 1992, Henry Hamra worked in the garment trade with a local boy born to a Jewish mother and a Muslim father in Damascus. He got to know the family ...

in the Ifrange synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Dust filled the air as Rabbi Yosef Hamra opened a long-sealed closet containing holy scrolls untouched since he last held Jewish services in the centuries-old synagogue three ...

Marking the first communal Jewish prayer in over three decades, a small group of Jews residing in Damascus, along with visitors from the US, gathered at the Elfranj Synagogue to perform the Mincha ...

During the visit, the Hamras prayed in the long-neglected al-Franj synagogue where Yusuf used to serve as a rabbi, in what is still known as the Jewish quarter, in the old city of Damascus ...

This week, a small number of Jews living in Damascus, along with others from abroad, held a group prayer for the first time in more than three decades, in the Faranj synagogue in Damascus's Old City. ...

Damascus (AFP) – Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope of reviving their ancient heritage before the ...

While the synagogues and Jewish school in the Old City remained relatively well-preserved, Syria's largest synagogue in Jobar, an eastern suburb of Damascus, was reduced to rubble during the ...