STORY: 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. The pair have been planning this ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — 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 minority has ...

Syria’s Social Affairs and Labor Minister Hind Kabawat tells AFP that the new Syrian government has, for the first time, granted a license to a Jewish organization, which plans to work to return ...

Henry Hamra and members of a Syrian Jewish delegation who are visiting Syria for the first time in decades hold a Torah Case in a Jewish synagogue in Damascus DAMASCUS (Reuters) - For the first time ...

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 ...