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 ...

(credit: Wikimedia Commons) The Maccabees’ guerrilla warfare campaign lasted three years. Through strategic attacks, they gradually weakened the mighty Seleucid army, and their dedication to ...

Resisting assimilation, the Maccabees defeated the Syrian army, and reclaiming the Temple, they kindled again its holy lamps with only a small cruse of oil. According to the Talmud, Chanukah ...

This Chanukah I join Jews around the world in celebrating Israel’s recent military victories, that parallel the holiday’s commemoration of the Maccabees’ triumphant war against the powerful ...

We all learned in kindergarten that a small band of Jewish fighters, the Maccabees, rose up against the mighty Greek army and rededicated the Temple. The army of Judah the Maccabee. (credit ...

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.

We all learned in kindergarten that a small band of Jewish fighters, the Maccabees, rose up against the mighty Greek army and rededicated the Temple. However, the true picture was not quite that ...

The oil wasn’t the miracle of Hanukkah. The real miracle was that the Maccabees, a tiny band of Jewish guerrillas, defeated the Syrian-Greek army — the mightiest army in the world — and ...

Hanukkah commemorates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after a small group called the Maccabees defeated the Greek Syrian army. During the battle, the Jews had only enough oil to ...