In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...
Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and read from ... during their tour of the old city of Damascus, including Palestinian Arabs.
Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son, Henry, returned to Damascus for the first time since the 1990s when they fled Syria. They ...