DAMASCUS, Syria — “This was a Jewish home, and so was that. These were all Jewish homes,” Badriyah Mousa Shatah said as she walked through Damascus’s historic Jewish Quarter, or the “Harat al-Yahud” ...
Fewer than a hundred Jewish people are estimated to remain in Syria, scattered across a country where their community once numbered in the tens of thousands. In the narrow stone alleys of Damascus's ...
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, ...