These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, fought when it was difficult and when we were the minority. We witnessed many battles of the few facing the many.

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 ...

Rather, it is instead in the books First and Second Maccabees, which are not considered canonical in Judaism but are deuterocanonical in the Orthodox and Catholic churches. It is also mentioned in ...

The Seleucid Empire, which the Maccabees fought in the 2nd century BCE, was Syrian-Greek, with its capital in what is now modern Syria. Then, as now, the region was a battleground for oppression ...