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 Jewish community was not targeted during the overthrow of the Assad regime by rebel groups last week, a member of Damascus's tiny Jewish community told KAN news on Saturday. The source told ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Despite the absurdity of this claim—Jewish law explicitly forbids ... Thomas's blood to the Chief Rabbi of Damascus, Jacob Antebi, thus implicating the community's spiritual leader.

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, ...