Amar said the Maccabees’ ideals resonate today, with Israel often under an international microscope. “There’s a message to us not to feel the need to conform,” he said.

Few ancient sites in the Holy Land have ignited the imagination like the lost tombs of the Maccabees, the family that led a Jewish rebel army to victory against Seleucid religious repression in ...

In the late 1880s, a succession of European explorers went searching for the tomb. They were drawn to a barren area near the West Bank village of Midya, a name that resembles Modiin, the ancient ...

Ancient findings in the footsteps of the Maccabees Maccabee mansion hiding under modern home. When Theo and Miriam Siebenberg built a house in Jerusalem’s Old City in 1970, Theo had a hunch that ...

In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid Empire was regional. Its theatre spanned part of the ancient Levant, but went no further.

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 ...

But the Maccabees’ story did not go away. Even the ancient rabbis who may have deemphasized the military victory did not erase it entirely. The al hanisim (“for the miracles”) prayer recited ...

As we celebrate over Hanukkah’s eight days the valor of those who rose to resist villainy - in those days and in our time - we mark the words of Maccabees both ancient and modern.

In these ancient days of the Maccabees, It was enough for the witnesses that only one oil lamp was miraculously burning. Franz Kafka mocked it. The Maccabees fought and rebuilt the Temple.

An ancient treasure trove of silver coins found in a desert cave in Israel could add new evidence to support the Hanukkah ... The Maccabees revolted against the Seleucid king — Antiochus ...

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.

From Maccabees to modern miracles For this year’s Festival of Lights, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) organized a “Live the Miracle” campaign.