The Maccabees have sparked rumours of an appearance at Glastonbury Festival (Picture: Tom Pullen/REX/Shutterstock) The Maccabees have sparked Glastonbury reunion rumours eight years after their ...

The Maccabees sparked whispers of a reunion in October and they have now confirmed they are back together and performing again. The five-piece band, fronted by Orlando Weeks, are already booked to ...

This September he formed the Tucson Maccabees soccer club, choosing a name that generations of Jewish athletes have played under in soccer and a variety of sports. Playing its first season this fall, ...

Re-dedication was necessary because Seleucid king of Syria, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, had defiled the Temple by having an altar to Zeus placed there. When the Maccabees began preparing the Temple ...

Chanukah commemorates the heroism of the Maccabees from Modiin in Israel. Almost single-handedly, they stood out against the Syrian Greek rulers who had succeeded in Hellenizing a large part of Israel ...

History of Hanukkah The background to Hanukkah lies in the second century BC when a Greek army led by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (who ruled 175 to 164 BC) marched into Jerusalem (2 Maccabees 5:11–14) ...

During Hanukkah, Jews recall a time when the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV, outlawed Judaism, and desecrated its temple. It was a very dark time. But Jewish rebels, led by the Maccabees, through ...