Inside the Great Synagogue of Aleppo: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience

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Back to Searching for Jewish Aleppo: A Filmmaker's Quest to Restore Syria's Lost Heritage

Tue, Feb 17, 2026

5 PM – 7 PM EST (GMT-5)

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This presentation is one of two evenings with award-winning filmmaker and virtual reality creator, Avi Dabach, exploring the history and destruction of Aleppo’s Great Synagogue and how rare last-minute photographs were transformed through research, 3D modeling, and virtual reality into an immersive reconstruction of lost communal memory.
Dinner will be provided.
Registration is requested.

Be sure to join us for his accompanying lecture, "Searching for Jewish Aleppo: A Filmmaker's Quest to Restore Syria's Lost Heritage," on Wednesday, February 18th at 6pm in Clark 206, the Baker-Nord Institute. Register on the event page.

Two evenings with Avi Dabach are sponsored by: the Baker-Nord Institute, Geller Hillel, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Program in Jewish Studies.

https://case.edu/hillel/

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