The last Jews of Damascus: A journey through memory and ruins
Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the ...
The Jewish Chronicle25d
After Assad, will Syrian Jews flourish once again?
The Great Synagogue of Aleppo is between 1,500 and 3,000 years old and was in use until 1992 when almost all of the Jews departed ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
Nearly half the Jewish sites in Syria have been ruined. The fate of most Iraqi sites is unknown.
Among the most endangered structures are the Bandara Synagogue in Aleppo, Syria, and the Synagogue of the Prophet Elijah in Damascus, the researchers found. In Iraq, the bulk of the destruction ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency1mon
What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? Assad’s collapse spurs efforts to assess the damage.
The al-Bandara Synagogue, one of the oldest synagogues in Aleppo, also suffered damage during heavy fighting in the region. The synagogue had been renovated in the 1990s but was damaged again ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs28d
Celebrating Assad regime’s fall, Jews remaining in Syria calls on Syrian Jewish émigrés to visit
The current state of the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue. (credit: Courtesy/The Media Line) Mahmoud Hamam, a lawyer from Aleppo, said that many of Aleppo’s synagogues were destroyed following a project ...
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Christians in Aleppo are celebrating Christmas – but fear for their future
Across Aleppo, churches are tentatively preparing ... Young worshippers from Archbishop Chahda’s congregation are busy constructing a large nativity scene and decorating a Christmas tree downstairs.