On Hanukkah, we celebrate the heroism of the Maccabees, the few who overcome the many. For example, according to the First Book of Maccabees, at the battle of Emmaus, 3,000 Jews defeated 5,000 ...

The stark realities of modern terrorism demand clear distinctions. The Maccabees rose up against the Seleucid Empire in a battle for religious and cultural survival. Under Antiochus IV Epiphanes ...