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While sanctions still cripple a shattered Syria, one Jewish leader returns from exile
During the Assad regimes, Western nations placed crippling economic sanctions on the country. Some have been lifted, but most are still in place, so how does a country shattered by civil war rebuild? And we follow the return to Damascus of one US Syrian Jewish leader, after decades in exile.
Rabbi Yousif Hamra, cantor Harry Hamra and Rabbi Asher Lopatin read a centuries old Torah inside the 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus on Feb. 18, 2025. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
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Rabbi Yousif Hamra, cantor Harry Hamra and Rabbi Asher Lopatin read a centuries old Torah inside the 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus on Feb. 18, 2025.
Ayman Oghanna for NPR
