Syrian Jewish Community

Jews of Damascus awaits fate of detained antiquities dealer

Members of the small Jewish community in Damascus voiced concern after the arrest of antiquities dealer Saleem Hamdani, as authorities investigate allegations of illegal artifact trade.

In Damascus synagogue:

Jewish scholar views 1,700-year-old Dura Europos paintings

After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus, Syria.

Historic Jewish visit:

Chabad emissary from Turkey leads delegation to Syria

Delegation holds rare Jewish prayer service in Damascus synagogue, including Torah reading - the first in years.

After years of war:

Few Jews remain in Damascus as community struggles to recover

In Damascus’ former Jewish quarter, optimism about the Syrian Jewish future is hard to muster.

Despite 'reconciliation'

New Syrian regime confiscates Jewish properties

New Syrian regime transfers homes belonging to Jews who left the country to local residents.

First time in decades:

How a small delegation of US Jews got to Syria

'Everyone was so excited, the people are so kind and really, very, very nice,' Jewish delegate to Syria Rabbi Asher Lopatin says.

'Protect remaining Jews'

The unordinary letter from the rabbi to Syria's new leader

Rabbi Binyamin Hamra, the spiritual leader of the Syrian community in Israel, sent a letter to Ahmad al-Sharaa asking him to protect the country's remaining Jews and Jewish holy sites.

'Tremendous fear' that Jewish sites in Syria may have been looted

What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? Assad’s collapse spurs efforts to assess the damage.

Ali/Eliya Hassan: A shock wave In the Syrian Jewish community

This is an appalling tragedy of errors of Shakepearian proportions that has pierced the hearts of many. Opinion.

Summarizing an eyeopening visit to Judea and Samaria

Arutz Sheva speaks to Jack Gindy, one of the leaders of the Syrian Jewish Community in Brooklyn about his recent trip to Judea and Samaria.

Halabi community's rabbi passes away

Syrian community in New York Chief Rabbi Shaul Katzin passes at age 97.

NYC Mayor: Syrian migrants like 'Jews fleeing Nazis'

De Blasio offends Syrian Jews comparing their expulsion with migrants now entering US; 'difference is we were kicked out for being Jews.'

Brooklyn Syrian Jews Apologize to Rabbi Hecht 17 Years Later

It has taken 17 years, but Brooklyn's Syrian Shaare Zion synagogue has apologized to Rabbi Avraham Hecht, 90, over the Rabin scandal.