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.

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

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ...

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

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 ...

The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than ...

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 ...