Families and relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza lit the first candle of Hanukkah on Wednesday, marking the start of ...

That innocent little top, with a Hebrew letter carved on each side, carries within it a great deal of Jewish history and ...

“Mothers and female relatives of the hostages, joined by many supporters, held a three-hour silent protest in white clothing ... to mark the victory of the Maccabees of that time and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do ...

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, commemorates the victory of a small group of Jewish fighters, who called themselves the Maccabees, over the powerful Greek-Assyrian army ...

Hanukkah traditionally celebrates the Maccabees, a group of Jewish fighters who defeated the Greek-Syrian army and reclaimed the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd Century BC, according to ...

The battle continues as we fight to increase light and obliterate the darkness.