Ancient Jewish artifacts missing in Syria

[The Caspian Hare]

Jewish artifacts, including ancient parchment torahs from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of ongoing civil war, with some precious items reportedly surfacing abroad.

Activists say the artifacts, moved from the now-destroyed Jobar Synagogue in Damascus’ eastern Ghouta suburb when it was taken by rebels, were allegedly put into safe keeping to avoid theft and damage in 2013, but twice since then local officials have discovered some are missing.

The main missing cache, they say, contained torahs written on gazelle leather as well as tapestries and chandeliers, and was given to a militia by a local council for safekeeping when rebels surrendered the neighborhood to government forces earlier this year. That group, the Islamist-inspired Failaq al-Rahman brigade, later said that it was not in possession of the items after the council arrived at a new rebel base in Syria’s north after evacuating earlier this year.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/jewish-artifacts-disappear-from-damascus-in-fog-of-syria-war-1.6179150

[Piney]

Check Hobby Lobby's personal museum in DC. 

[Orphalesion]

****ing plunderers...
 

Well, let's hope it was plunderers rather than deliberate destruction or accidental destruction during fighting. That way there's at least hope that those artifacts might show up again in the future.

[Unusual Tournament]

3 hours ago, Orphalesion said:

****ing plunderers...
 

Well, let's hope it was plunderers rather than deliberate destruction or accidental destruction during fighting. That way there's at least hope that those artifacts might show up again in the future.

couldn't agree more. i wouldn't discount Israel rescuing those treasures before ISIS got a hold of them.