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

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

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

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

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

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago, they were met by former ...

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

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, leaves after visiting a Jewish school in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American ...

For the first time in 13 years, Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh was walking through the streets of Damascus without fearing arrest. Long ...

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

Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry return to Damascus and read from a Torah scroll in the heart of Syria. The event marks a poignant homecoming, highlighting the long absence of Syria's Jewish ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...