they would feel flattered by the comparison to their sons. Living in Modi’in — the home of the ancient Maccabees — my wife, Rachel, and I feel privileged to have been eyewitnesses to the ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... Then he and his five sons hide out in the country and launch a rebellion against Antiochus' reign. Mattathias soon dies, but appoints his ...

The third speaker, my son Aviv Troy, still doing revolving-door ... We usually speak of Maccabees in the plural, because the five brothers delivered their blows best as a clenched fist.

As a result, a country priest named Mattathias and his five sons instigated a revolt. These Maccabees, as they came to be called, used guerrilla tactics to defeat the Syrian army, recaptured ...

Then you and your family shall be numbered among the king’s friends, and you and your sons shall be honoured with silver, with gold, and with all manner of gifts” (1 Maccabees 2:17).