There aren't many song sin the world about the sheer delicacy of becoming a father for the first time, but Orlando Weeks delivers perhaps the best.

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 ...

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).

Of this same thing in the Maccabees [it says], `Was not Abraham ... the five of Moses . . . and one book of Joshua [Son of] Nave, one of Judges; one little book which is called Ruth . . . then ...

Here, the Hasmoneans, or Maccabees as they became known, clearly highlight the answer. Matityahu was an elderly kohen of the Hasmonean family and, together with his five sons, decided to declare ...

Judah, son of Matisyahu, was a high priest at that ... The Scroll’s story differs significantly from the versions in the Book of Maccabees, the Talmud, and history. Despite Saadiah Gaon, the ...

Adele and her son, who was visiting her at the time ... reminder of the resiliency of the Jewish people. Just as the Maccabees refused to be victims and allow their enemies to steal their identity ...

Herod Philip II, his son, who like his father was not Jewish ... Over two thousand years later the descendants of the Maccabees once again stand watch. In the days of the Seleucid Empire, Israel ...

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 ...

Here, the Hasmoneans, or Maccabees as they became known, clearly highlight the answer. Matityahu was an elderly kohen of the Hasmonean family and, together with his five sons, decided to declare ...

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