St. John Paul II greets Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986 at Rome’s main synagogue, believed to be the oldest Jewish community in the ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

In a previous article we asked whether, for the event that renewed Paul’s life on the road to Damascus, it is more accurate ...

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced the city’s involvement in a lawsuit between San Francisco and President Donald Trump over recent federal immigration policy on Wednesday afternoon.

Netanyahu Says Israel Won't Allow Syrian Forces 'South of Damascus' JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent ...

DAMASCUS - On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a joyful evening of music - a concert held with the approval of ...

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A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing ...

ST. LOUIS — Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Paul Simon is returning to the stage this spring and summer for his "A Quiet Celebration Tour," which includes two performances in St. Louis ...

"Saturday Night Live" celebrated 50 years on the air over the weekend. Once a scrappy up-start comedy hour, the show is now considered must-see late-night TV. What's more, it has proven itself a ...

An off-duty St. Paul police officer who was drunk when he crashed into a vacant building on the city’s East Side has been sentenced to 10 days in the workhouse and two years of probation.