The Maccabees lost 83-66 to the Jumbos on Friday. Zevi Samet scored 29 points. Yeshiva University’s March Madness run has once again ended after just one game. The Maccabees fell in the first ...

After a three-year fight, the Maccabees liberated the temple—and won the Jewish people the right to practice their religion. Scholars believe the first Hanukkah celebration was actually a ...

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.

(JTA) — Javier Milei invoked the story of the Maccabees in his inaugural address as Argentina’s president on Sunday, extending the right-wing populist’s prominent fascination with Judaism as ...