Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges

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Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country

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.

(Image credit: Ayman Oghanna for NPR)