Fewer Than 10 Jews Live in Syria. A Diaspora Is Edging Back.
Dust filled the air as Rabbi Yosef Hamra opened a long-sealed closet containing holy scrolls untouched since he last held ...
Syrian Jews’ homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile
As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...
New head of Syria’s tiny Jewish community thrives despite uncertainty
Bakhour Chamntoub was recently appointed as the head of Syria’s Jewish community by the new Syrian government of Ahmed ...
After decades in exile, Syria's Jews visit Damascus
For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...
Syrian suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing wanted to kill Jews, investigators say
Investigators say the suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously ...
Daily Sabah4d
Syrian Jews hold 1st prayer in 3 decades at Damascus synagogue
Syria’s small Jewish community held its first group prayer in decades Wednesday at a Damascus synagogue, celebrating the long ...
German police arrest Syrian refugee after stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial
Authorities in Berlin have detained a teenage Syrian refugee after a man was stabbed near the city’s Holocaust Memorial late ...
Berlin attacker is Syrian refugee who harboured ‘plan to kill Jews’
An asylum seeker with a “plan to kill Jews” stabbed a man at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial before a German election dominated ...
Al-Monitor3d
Syrian Jews hope for revival of ancient heritage
Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny ...
Sun Sentinel4d
Syrian Jews’ homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile
The Syrian-American Jewish family returned as part of a delegation organized by the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, in the wake of the fall of the government of ...
The Washington Post4d
Syrian Jews' homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile
The Syrian-American Jewish family returned as part of a delegation organized by the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, in the wake of the fall of the government of ...