Bordering on the “sacrilegious,” she suggested that what the IDF has accomplished over the past year actually surpasses ...

The real deal was that, because of the temple takeover, the Jews hadn’t been able to observe the weeklong fall pilgrimage ...

The words of Israel’s modern Maccabees, like those of Matityahu and his sons, sought spiritual strength in the succession of heroes from days past. As the First Book of Maccabees records ...

Indeed, Maccabees 1 and 2 are hyper-nationalistic texts, principally concerned with the patriarch Mattathias and his five sons, who rose against Antiochus, the Hellenic king who desecrated the ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... Then he and his five sons hide out in the country and launch a rebellion against Antiochus' reign. Mattathias soon dies, but appoints his ...

In historical terms, the Maccabean Revolt was the beginning of the end of the Seleucid Empire. Moral: Don't mess with the ...

Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the ...