Joseph Haleem Hamra, Jr., 64, of Edmond, OK, died on Sunday, March 25, 2018. A Celebration of Life will be held in Edmond on Thursday, March 29th, from 4-6 PM, at the Montellano Event Center ...

Joseph Hamra, a Syrian Jewish rabbi who left Syria years ago, talks in front of the destroyed synagogue in Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria February 18, 2025.

A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over ...

30 years after they left the country, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry visited Damascus to read from a Torah scroll inside a synagogue.

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

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