News A miracle happened somewhere around here: A look at life on the land where Hanukkah began The Book of Maccabees tells us where the first Hanukkah took place. For locals, the spirit of the ...

Archaeologists today say these cannot be the graves of the Maccabees, but Israeli road signs still label them as such and Hanukkah ceremonies are held there to honor the ancient rebels.

A feature of sever ancient finding archaeologists have uncovered in the footsteps of the Maccabees from the Hasmonean dynasty.

Archaeologists today say these cannot be the graves of the Maccabees, but Israeli road signs still label them as such and Hanukkah ceremonies are held there to honor the ancient rebels.

Living in Modi’in — the home of the ancient Maccabees — my wife, Rachel, and I feel privileged to have been eyewitnesses to the monumental wonders that have unfolded all around us this past ...

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 ...

At the same time, as both ancient and modern rabbis have understood, one cannot write the Maccabees, the military battle, or the Hasmonean dynasty entirely out of the Chanukah story.

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.

An ancient treasure trove of silver coins found in a desert cave in Israel could add new evidence to support the Hanukkah story of the Maccabean revolt.

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.

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.

Showing gratitude to the IDF, the modern-day Maccabees Israel’s very existence is itself a contemporary miracle, yet much of the world doesn’t seem to appreciate how precarious that survival ...