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A rare testimony from the Alliance Israélite Universelle shows the Jewish Scout Movement in Damascus, highlighting its role ...
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 ...
A group of Jews who left Syria decades ago wants sanctions relief for a government with former ties to Al Qaeda, despite ...
“The whole community was like one family,” Henry ... trip as “marking a historic step toward reestablishing Jewish life in Damascus.” For now, though, there is only a tiny trickle of ...
Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...
The French consul in Damascus, a notorious antisemite, seized upon the opportunity and formally accused the Jewish community of ritual murder. Prominent Jewish leaders were arrested, brutally ...
The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, icons and churches from vandalism and attacks in post-Assad Syria.