A group of Syrian Jews returned to Damascus after the fall of Assad. Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in ...

After decades of exile, a group of American Jews with deep roots in Damascus has returned to Syria to rediscover their ...

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

For the first time in nearly thirty years, a group of American Jews originally from Damascus returned to Syria last week.

Émigrés hope the battered country—sometimes a haven, sometimes a persecutor—can again be home under the new government.

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

War reporter Itai Anghel finds piles of classified files, speaks to Syrian soldiers, and meets a Syrian Jew in 'Uvda' ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Dust filled the air as Rabbi Yosef Hamra opened a long-sealed closet containing holy scrolls untouched since he last held Jewish services in the centuries-old synagogue three ...

While the new authorities have pledged to ensure inclusivity for all communities, concerns persist regarding religious ...

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

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