These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, fought when it was difficult and when we were the minority. We witnessed many battles of the few facing the many.

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Hanukkah, celebrated next week, tells the story of the Maccabees – fighters who stood against tyranny, reclaimed their freedom, and rededicated the Temple ...

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1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc.

TOMB OF the Maccabees near present-day Mevo Modi’im. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) The Maccabees’ guerrilla warfare campaign lasted three years. Through strategic attacks, they gradually ...