I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

and fought a civil war which prompted Rome to make Israel its vassal state. Secular pre-state Zionists inclined to this view, taking the Maccabees as inspiration and, as Marc Spiro in his ...

as evidenced by the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks. At present, we must publicize the great miracle of our generation: the revival of the People of Israel in the Land of Israel after the long ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

This Chanukah I join Jews around the world in celebrating Israel’s recent military victories, that parallel the holiday’s commemoration of the Maccabees’ triumphant war against the powerful ...

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

The Maccabees lived in the time of the Greek Empire ... fighting for the future of Israel. Or like my friend and colleague Rabbi Zvi Elon, the head of the World Bnei Akiva movement, an exemplary ...

But when the Maccabees returned to their ransacked temple ... In 175 B.C., King Antiochus – whose ancient kingdom was in present-day Israel – made it illegal for people who lived there ...

(credit: FLASH90) The Books of Maccabees did not make it into the Jewish canon and are not part of the Jewish Bible. The Zionist, modern State of Israel found and embraced the story of the ...

and when hundreds of rockets began to fall on southern Israel and Hamas terrorists began to infiltrate the border, Keith did not run for safety. Instead, like the brave Maccabees before him and ...

Just as the Maccabees refused to be victims and allow ... Her story is also a poignant reminder that the people of Israel continue to suffer as they fight against the darkness of terrorism.