DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal expression ... into what had been a center of the Syrian capital's once-thriving Jewish community. Built more than 500 years ago by Jews who fled the terrors ...

The Syrian Interior Ministry authorized a local entity, headed by Yousef Hamdan and Ahmad Abu Shukr, to transfer properties of "absent Jews" to new owners. This is despite the fact that during former ...

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 ...

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

The Israeli army says two rockets have been fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.

I n a dramatic operation, the Mossad recovered and returned to Israel the official Syrian archive of legendary Israeli spy ...

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

Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have in recent weeks held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...