Dust filled the air as Rabbi Yosef Hamra opened a long-sealed closet containing holy scrolls untouched since he last held ...

Over the past decades, the number of Jews in Syria decreased from about five thousand to seven elderly individuals.

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

The overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria paved the way for a historic visit, with Syrian Jews returning from the U.S. to Damascus for the first time in three decades, hoping to rebuild community.

Bakhour Chamntoub was recently appointed as the head of Syria’s Jewish community by the new Syrian government of Ahmed ...

Delegation of American Jews visits Damascus for first time since Assad regime's fall, finding hospitality but Jewish sites in ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...

Syria’s small Jewish community held its first group prayer in decades Wednesday at a Damascus synagogue, celebrating the long ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry visited Damascus for the first time since leaving Syria over three decades ago. Their ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry returned to a synagogue in the heart of Syria's ...

During the visit, the Hamras prayed in the long-neglected al-Franj synagogue where Yusuf used to serve as a rabbi, in what is still known as the Jewish quarter, in the old city of Damascus ...

During the visit, the Hamras prayed in the long-neglected al-Franj synagogue where Yusuf used to serve as a rabbi, in what is still known as the Jewish quarter, in the old city of Damascus ...