“About half a million Jews visited the Western Wall over the week of Passover in 2025 but only 6,315 of them went further up to the Temple Mount,” said Kikar HaShabbat, an ultra-Orthodox news site, ...

I Maccabees Author: Unknown Date Written: c.100 BC Date of Narrative: 323-104 BC 1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc.

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

The question of who rightfully owns the land of Israel has been a contentious issue for decades. However, when the issue is ...

The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text.

There are also other possibilities. One ancient legend suggests that the ark was hidden somewhere in or near the temple ...

When White declares “We’re The Maccabees” after an opening one-two-three of giddy debut album cuts Latchmere, Lego and X-Ray, his most simple of statements is greeted like a revelation.

Kicking off the comeback with a teeny warm up show at Tufnell Park’s 600-capacity Dome, you can physically feel the love in the room, dripping off the insanely sweaty bodies determined to dance it out ...

The Maccabees made their long-awaited live return last night (June 20) with an intimate charity gig in London. Check out photos, footage, the setlist and more below.

When The Maccabees called time back in 2017, it felt like a band pulling the exit cord just as they’d finally reached the top of the summit. After a decade of graft and steady ascent, the South ...

When The Maccabees called time back in 2017, it felt like a band pulling the exit cord just as they’d finally reached the top of the summit. After a decade of graft and steady ascent, the South London ...