Music has power. Sometimes music is the power behind big movements. OK, saying it’s the power behind movements might be too exaggerated, but it definitely accompanies and empowers movements and soci ...

In celebration of the second night of Chanukah, Chabad Columbus hosted 306 people for its Maccabee Landing and Chanukah Candy ...

Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer.

Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.

an expert on Jewish sports history, as he guides us through the long lineage of Jews who left their mark on the sports world in different ways — from the Maccabees to BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff.

All the news of Jewish interest was reported without prejudice providing opposite views on the same subject on the same page. I wish the enthusiastic new publishers success in their new ventures, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...

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 ...

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) ...