It was specifically the Maccabees who ensured that the light of Jewish destiny would continue. And it is these modern-day Maccabees, many of whom come from our Religious Zionist community ...

In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid ... the IDF is pitted against virtually the entire world united against the Jewish State. Not only has it been defending its people ...

But when the Maccabees returned to their ransacked temple ... The tradition is organized by the Jewish Community Alliance of Lancaster, but people of all religions are invited to attend.

Thus began the revolt of the Maccabees against Greek oppression – a war that would continue for decades, the first war that organised Jewish forces had fought in almost half a millennium ...

According to Jewish tradition, Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that burned for eight days after the Maccabees defeated the Greeks. The menorah is a symbol of the temple lampstand.

Rabbi Saaid Pewzner lit the fifth candle on the menorah, which is a sign of perseverance that the Maccabees survived persecution thousands of years ago. Jimmy Carter, Longest-Living U.S. President ...

It was specifically the Maccabees who ensured that the light of Jewish destiny would continue. And it is these modern-day Maccabees, many of whom come from our Religious Zionist community ...

One cannot help but notice that, according to the Book of the Maccabees, both circumcision and the Sabbath were prohibited in the context of mass Hellenization. Some Jewish men even underwent ...

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

An incredible, new awakening of Jewish valor and physical prowess ... The natural miracle is the military victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks—despite being few and weak, the Maccabees ...

In the original Chanukah, the Maccabees had driven the Syrian Greeks ... Herod Philip II, his son, who like his father was not Jewish in any way, the son of Cleopatra of Jerusalem whom Herod ...

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