For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time.

In the Faranj synagogue, Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra led the prayer for the first time since arriving this week from the United States, where he has lived since the 1990s. "The last time I ...

A group of American Jews, including Henry Hamra, who fled Syria decades ago, appealed to the White House on Wednesday to lift sanctions on Syria, which they say are hindering the restoration of ...