Playing its first season this fall, Tucson Maccabees is the only Southern Arizona team in the United Premier Soccer League’s Southwest Conference, Arizona Division 1. The team uses Naranja Park in Oro ...

Hanukkah is also called the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication and Feast of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is not the Jewish version of Christmas, but often children receive gifts, especially in ...

Then you and your family shall be numbered among the king’s friends, and you and your sons shall be honoured with silver, with gold, and with all manner of gifts” (1 Maccabees 2:17).

While Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that lasted for eight days, it also celebrates the miraculous victory of a small rag-tag group of Jews, known as the Maccabees, over a much more ...

In 167 BC, he desecrated the Temple when he erected an altar in it to the pagan god Zeus (1 Maccabees 1:41-48), and let the Menorah go out. These insults triggered a Jewish revolt (1 Maccabees 1:62-64 ...

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 ...

In 164 BC, a group of Jewish fighters, Maccabees, at the command of Judah of Maccabees engaged in battle with the Greek army, which captured the city of Jerusalem in 200 BC. Judah and his fighters ...

In his victory speech after the election, at 1:00am, Begin turned towards his ... These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, fought when it was difficult and ...

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2. Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old Testament ...

When the Syrians were trying to impose their religion and culture on the Jewish people, the non-conformist army, the Maccabees, were able to fight and win the rededication of their temple in ...

We usually speak of Maccabees in the plural, because the five brothers delivered their blows best as a clenched fist. Americans grow up on the Lone Ranger, on Superman and his fortress of Solitude ...