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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus last week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago ...