These Maccabees, as they came to be ... the fact to demonstrate that God had a hand in the story. In fact, the rabbis didn’t ...

Every year since then, Jewish people have celebrated their festival of lights, Hanukkah. They retell the story of the Maccabees, give gifts, eat special food and play games. And as they light the ...

That is a story from the Talmud, about five centuries after the Maccabees. The oil wasn’t the miracle of Hanukkah. The real miracle was that the Maccabees, a tiny band of Jewish guerrillas ...

President Joe Biden brought up the Hanukkah story, comparing Ukraine’s struggle against Russia to the Maccabees’ uprising. “Tonight is the fourth night of Hanukkah,” Biden said Wednesday ...