The Bashan is knocking, awaiting the return of its children, the Jewish people. Israel must now decide whether it hears it as ...

BEIRUT — Henry Hamra vividly recalls the day he was allowed to leave Syria. His uncle, the Jewish community’s rabbi, was called in for a meeting with Syria’s president at the time, Hafez al-Assad. “He ...

ALEPPO, Syria — Decades after almost the entire Syrian Jewish community left the country, Henry Hamra of Brooklyn, N.Y., stands at the metal door of a small synagogue in this ancient Syrian city, ...

The Jewish community in Syria has shrunk to just a handful of people nowadays — Bakr ALKASEM A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A group of Syrian-American Jews have registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria in a bid to restore Jewish heritage in a country where the once-sizable religious ...