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"Mizrahi Jews, descendants of North African and Middle Eastern communities, especially Moroccan Jews, have made significant strides in politics, business, and the arts. Their once-marginalized music, cuisine, and traditions are now central to modern Jewish culture.

The Ades Synagogue on 1 Beer Sheva Street in the Nahlaot Neighborhood of Jerusalem which is a noted center of worship for the Syrian Jewish community maintaining the customs of Aleppo. The inside of the synagogue is ornately decorated. Ades is noted as a major center of hazzanut, particularly the elaborate cantorial system of Syrian Jews with its maqamat.

Join Jewish Book Council for the third of six National Jewish Book Club Online talks for the 2014-2015 selection (www.jewishbookcouncil.org/bookclub). We'll be talking with author Matti Friedman (The Aleppo Codex).

Syrian Jews visit Damascus after years of exile under Assad regime

Aleppo (Ar. Ḥalab; called by the Jews Aram-Ẓoba (Aram Ẓova)), the second-largest city in Syria and the center of northern Syria. The Hebrew form of Aleppo (Ḥaleb) is, according to a legend quoted by the 12th-century traveler, Pethahiah of Regensburg, derived from the tradition that Abraham pastured his sheep on the mountain of Aleppo and distributed their milk (ḥalav) to the poor on its slopes. According to Jewish tradition, as mentioned by Rabbi Abraham Dayyan, the beginning of the community was in the era of Joab ben Ẓeruiah, the conqueror of the city in the time of King David, who also built the great synagogue. . .

Aleppo (Ar. Ḥalab; called by the Jews Aram-Ẓoba (Aram Ẓova)), the second-largest city in Syria and the center of northern Syria. The Hebrew form of Aleppo (Ḥaleb) is, according to a legend quoted by the 12th-century traveler, Pethahiah of Regensburg, derived from the tradition that Abraham pastured his sheep on the mountain of Aleppo and distributed their milk (ḥalav) to the poor on its slopes. According to Jewish tradition, as mentioned by Rabbi Abraham Dayyan, the beginning of the community was in the era of Joab ben Ẓeruiah, the conqueror of the city in the time of King David, who also built the great synagogue. .