Forward Roy Itcovichi averages 8.2 points and 4.2 boards per game, while forward Luke Cronin leads the team in blocks with 17 and leads as well as a squad-best 5.5 rebounds per game. YU takes on ...

By: Yael Toyber, SFU Student Content warning: descriptions of the Holocaust and antisemitism. My friends and I joke when explaining Jewish holidays to non-Jews: “We survived, and now we eat!” ...

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, ...

Hanukkah is a celebration of a miracle, Kosofsky told those gathered. More than 2,000 years ago, in 165 BCE, the Jewish Maccabees reclaimed the Temple Mount in Jerusalem from the Greek ruler Antiochus ...

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, ...

Hanukkah is also called the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication and Feast of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is not the Jewish version of Christmas, but often children receive gifts, especially in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...