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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

While the new regime in Damascus publicly promotes a policy of reconciliation with the Jewish community, behind the scenes, an entirely different approach is unfolding. According to a report by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...