🇸🇾🇺🇸✡️ NEW: Rabbi Yosef Hamra, spiritual leader of the Syrian Jewish community, has sent a letter to the U.S. Congress urging a full repeal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act — the sweeping sanctions law that continues to cripple Syria’s reconstruction and energy sectors.

Writing on behalf of the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation (JHS), Hamra argues that the Caesar Act, originally imposed to punish the Assad government, now harms Syria’s remaining Jewish heritage and prevents displaced Syrian Jews from returning to restore their synagogues, cemeteries, and communal properties.

“Failing to fully repeal the Caesar Act would be devastating to the Jewish community in Syria,” Hamra wrote, warning that continued sanctions risk “a complete collapse of Syria’s economy and society,” opening space for extremist groups and making reconstruction impossible.

The letter recalls that the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, one of the oldest in the world, was destroyed during the war despite international pleas to preserve it. JHS says it has managed to protect the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital (1542–1620) but warns that further preservation efforts cannot continue under the current sanctions regime.

Hamra concludes by calling on U.S. lawmakers to lift sanctions “for the return of our community to our homeland,” framing the repeal as both a humanitarian and cultural necessity.

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