Jews in syria

From Satmar to Syria: The hassidic mission to discover relics of ancient Jewish civilizations

Despite the current lack of Jewish presence, Satmar Hassid Moshe Klein says it is obvious that a great many Jews once lived in Syria.

AT THE ruins of the Jobar Synagogue in Aleppo.
The Dura Europos Synagogue wall paintings in the National Museum of Damascus on September 16, 2025.

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

A kippah and a pile of documents.

Time running out in race to preserve endangered Jewish languages

The entrance of an abandoned Jewish synagogue in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, pictured in 2009

Nearly half the Jewish sites in Syria have been ruined


Last vestiges of Syrian Jewry clinging to community

Expert: As long as Assad controls Damascus, their lives will remain protected.

THE JEWISH QUARTER in Damascus lies desolate

Travails of Jews from Arab Lands finally recognized after 66 years

The intention behind the bill, said one of the bill's makers, was to ensure that the stories of what happened to Jews in and from Arab lands and Iran should be part of the school curriculum.

JEWISH IMMIGRANTS from Yemen in 1950 after their arrival to Israel

Assad forces destroy Syria's oldest synagogue

The synagogue was said to be built atop a cave where the prophet Elijah once hid.

Jobar synagogue in Damascus 370