Jobar, a Damascus suburb that was heavily bombed during the war, is now accessible again, following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad's regime earlier in December. The Jobar Synagogue, or ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...

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 ...

“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 ...

evidence of its presence in Damascus is extremely rare. This photograph provides testimony that the Jewish community of Damascus, while preserving its rich traditions, sought to provide its ...

The world remains blind to the historical reality of Jewish persecution in Arab lands. While Israel embraces diversity, its neighbors have systematically erased their Jewish populations. The real ...

In some instances, like Morocco, the Jewish community’s flight was largely ... who took the pictures of the destroyed synagogue in Damascus. Sherman was documenting Tunisian sites in 2010 ...

A group of Jews who left Syria decades ago wants sanctions relief for a government with former ties to Al Qaeda, despite ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump administration to lift sanctions on Syria that they say are ...

Henry Hamra and members of a Syrian Jewish delegation who are visiting Syria for the first time in decades hold a Torah Case in a Jewish synagogue in Damascus ...

“We were only in Damascus. We didn’t go all over the ... “It is clear at this point that the Jewish community is not welcome at certain tables that we’ve become accustomed to be welcome ...