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 ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA-- Bakhour Chamntoub is not what you might expect from one of the last Jews in one of the Arab world’s most anti-Israel countries. “This is what I love about this city ...

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 ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship. In ...

Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, attends an award ceremony. One of the most prominent representatives of the Jewish community in Germany ...