It got a dark half laugh from the crowd, but I couldn’t shake the thought that this “messy” part of the story mirrors ... a descendant of the Maccabees—heroes of Hanukkah—used his ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc.

Correction: This story has been corrected to show that the NCAA DIII tournament ends, not begins, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It has also been updated with information about the Maccabees’ first ...

Greenberg then spoke of the origin of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights: More than 2,000 years ago, the Maccabees, Jewish rebels, freed their homeland from the Syrians and restored the Temple ...

Years earlier, Rabbi Lynn had visited Treblinka with another group on Hanukkah ... like the candles of the Maccabees. When Rabbi Lynn finished recounting his story, tears welled in his eyes.

While many are familiar with elements of Hanukkah—such as the miracle of the oil or the Maccabees' victory over the Seleucid (Greco-Syrian) empire to rededicate the Temple in the 160s BCE—there exists ...

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It involves telling stories and going to the temple ... Advent anticipates the coming again to earth of Jesus Christ. Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration during which Jews commemorate the victory of ...

Hallie Rubenhold’s “Story of a Murder” chronicles a killing, featuring sex, dentures and tightrope walkers.