(JTA) — Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

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

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.

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

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.

During the Assad regimes, Western nations placed crippling economic sanctions on the country. Some have been lifted, but most ...

During the visit, the Hamras prayed in the long-neglected al-Franj synagogue where Yusuf used to serve as a rabbi, in what is ...

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

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 ...