"Dina d’malchuta dina (“the law of the land is the law”) requires Jews to obey the statutes of a legally constituted ...

They threw a pig into the Jew’s holy Temple in Jerusalem. They tried, often successfully, to lure Jews to adopt pagan traditions and abandon Jewish life. The Maccabees responded with a military ...

In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid ... New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, he holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature.

THE HOLIDAY CELEBRATES THE VICTORY OF THE MACCABEES OVER THE SYRIANS AND THE REDEDICATION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. THAT HAPPENED AROUND 165 BCE. A ONE DAY SUPPLY OF OIL MIRACULOUSLY ...

Over the next few decades the Maccabees’ successors Shimon the Kohen Gadol and after him his son Yochanan Hyrcanus I drove the Seleucids out of the central region around Jerusalem, then expanded ...

Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem and the miracle of ... Greeks defiled the Jerusalem Temple before the Maccabees, a group of Jewish soldiers, defeated them.

The natural miracle is the military victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks—despite ... Begunis founding head of Yeshivat Machon Meir in Jerusalem. There are two types of miracles we publicize ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... In the space of three years, the Jews recapture Jerusalem and purify the Temple (4:36). This purification and rededication of the Temple ...

In the original Chanukah, the Maccabees had driven the Syrian Greeks ... not only liberated Jerusalem, but relit the menorah with the last remaining pure oil that, despite being only sufficient ...

According to Jewish tradition, the temple of Jerusalem was re-dedicated after the Syrians destroyed it. The story behind the eight candles is that Maccabees only had enough oil to light the ...

This question, of the conflict between the power of a group (nation) and that of the individual belonging to it, has been much in the minds of many Israelis – and of Jews all over the world – for the ...