Cappadocia (modern-day Anatolia), and Pontus (southern coast of Black Sea, in modern north-east Turkey). Arguably, all these nations had been inspired by the Maccabees to take up arms against the ...

The endless desert sand, the gold-topped Dome of the Rock set against a cloudless sky, the black-garbed Haredi set ... It is worth noting that the Maccabees were religious zealots, who employed ...

On Hanukkah, we celebrate the heroism of the Maccabees, the few who overcome ... excellency not think that my words written here are in black ink, as they appear to the naked eye.

Body Movements, Gala, Cross The Tracks – with so many to choose from, what’s the 411 on the capital’s day festival offering?

After a famously on-off relationship, Smithy proposed to Nessa and the final scene features a heartwarming montage of a low-key wedding, with Nessa sporting a black ... by The Maccabees at number ...

Line up: Raye, Barry Can't Swim, The Maccabees You don't want to miss this ... surroundings we've ever experienced at a festival. The Black Mountains aren't usually open to the public, but ...

Credit: Bria Woods / San Antonio Report The Jewish people of Israel, or Maccabees, rededicated the temple ... for freedom and liberty…” Audience members cheer during Nissim Black’s performance at the ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do ...

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 ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

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 ...