Now, after the revolution in Syria, a Syrian Jewish leader has returned to Damascus. NPR's Jane Arraf ... but the Jewish community around it. YUSUF HAMRA AND HENRY HAMRA: (Praying in non-English ...

In a moving ceremony at the National Library in Jerusalem, the public was granted a rare glimpse of the ancient “Damascus ...

Unidentified individuals broke into Damascus’s Jewish cemetery in recent days and dug a pit near the grave of Rabbi Chaim Vital, possibly searching for remains, Kan news reports. The motive ...

The Jewish community in Syria has shrunk to just a handful of people nowadays — Bakr ALKASEM A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, ...

In this document, the Syrian court determined that the head of the Jewish community in Damascus, Rabbi Nissim Indibo, of blessed memory, was to be allowed to minister to Eli Cohen according to ...

For decades, the Druze in Israel have shed blood alongside the Jewish majority and formed a ... from Sahnaya and Jaramana in the outskirts of Damascus have fled to the town of Hader and its ...

The local Jewish community currently has only eight members, all of whom are adults. Rabbi Chaim Vital (1542-1620) lived in Damascus from 1595, where he served as rabbi of the Sicilian The Tomb ...

The National Library of Israel unveils several of the 12 Damascus Crowns in an event honoring Rabbi Abraham Hamra, the last ...

Syria's centuries-old Jewish community was able to practise their ... On Monday, the group prayed at the Damascus tomb of 17th-century Rabbi Chaim Vital, Kamil said. Community leader Chamntoub ...