With Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new president of Syria, having met this month with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., it is a remarkable turnaround for a man who just a few weeks ago was internationally labeled a designated terrorist.

It is still too early to tell the merits of such a delisting, as Trump and his administration throw their weight behind the new Syrian government.

Much of that confidence is the result of the work of several American Jewish leaders — led by Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, head of the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation and a leader of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York; and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

The main focus of the rabbis and other prominent Jewish gro

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