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 ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... At the time of 1 Macc, the land of Israel was caught in the crossfire of the ancient Greek empires. 1 Macc begins with the death of Alexander ...

Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after a small Jewish army called the Maccabees reclaimed it from the Greek leader Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC.

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2 . Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old ...

The Maccabees were fighting to combat this new ... been counted among the ultimate values… and a primary theme among ancient Greek philosophers.” While Jews are predominantly concerned about ...

But in ancient times, a small group refused to accept ... political maneuvering than bringing their people home. TOMB OF the Maccabees near present-day Mevo Modi’im. (credit: Wikimedia Commons ...

The Maccabees were fighting to combat this new ... and [is] a primary theme among ancient Greek philosophers.” While Jews are predominantly concerned about what is within us (our minds, thoughts ...

The ancient Maccabees “wanted us to know that no matter the circumstances and against all odds, we can always make light. We always must make light,” said Chabad-Lubavitch of Harrisburg’s ...

When the Maccabees prevailed over the Syrian Greeks ... a term coined by the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Some historians believe Josephus was referring not to a lighting of lamps ...

The holiday marks an ancient victory and a holy miracle — when just one days’ worth of oil left in the Second Temple, in Jerusalem, which had just been reclaimed by the Maccabees, lasted for eight ...