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

Members of the Jewish delegation, accompanied by former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp, carry an historic Torah in the Faranj synagogue in Damascus. Cantor Henry Hamra lights a candle at ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country's historic Jewish ...

Under the auspices of the new Syrian government, a small delegation toured Jewish heritage sites in and around Damascus last week, just two months after the fall of the dictatorial Bashar al-Assad ...

The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious... Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal ...

"This is purely about Syria," said Moustafa. The delegation's first stop after flying into Damascus last Monday was the Jewish cemetery — partially destroyed after the government built a highway ...