Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.

Damascus-SANA The Old Damascus Directorate ... The campaign includes cleaning and repairing walls and facades in Midhat Pasha Souq (market), cleaning streets and alleys, planting jasmine in ...

The winding streets of Damascus' old Jewish quarter ... ARRAF: There are dusty velvet pews pushed against walls with peeling paint. A pile of prayer books hundreds of years old are moldering ...