Playing its first season this fall, Tucson Maccabees is the only Southern Arizona team in the United Premier Soccer League’s Southwest Conference, Arizona Division 1. The team uses Naranja Park in Oro ...

A group of rebels called the Maccabees successfully fought back, defeating their oppressors and liberating the Temple; however, the oil there had been defiled by the Greeks, according 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).

In 167 BC, he desecrated the Temple when he erected an altar in it to the pagan god Zeus (1 Maccabees 1:41-48), and let the Menorah go out. These insults triggered a Jewish revolt (1 Maccabees 1:62-64 ...

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 ...

While Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that lasted for eight days, it also celebrates the miraculous victory of a small rag-tag group of Jews, known as the Maccabees, over a much more ...

While Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that lasted for eight days, it also celebrates the miraculous victory of a small rag-tag group of Jews, known as the Maccabees, over a much more ...

This too was the approach of the Maccabees. They saw a need and it was they who responded. They organized the defenses. They crafted battle plans. They defeated the mighty Greeks and restored the ...

In 164 BC, a group of Jewish fighters, Maccabees, at the command of Judah of Maccabees engaged in battle with the Greek army, which captured the city of Jerusalem in 200 BC. Judah and his fighters ...

In his victory speech after the election, at 1:00am, Begin turned towards his ... These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, fought when it was difficult and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For the first time in 20 years the first night of Hanukkah falls on December 25th and crowds gathered to celebrate. Maccabee’s Kosher Deli is leading the celebrations with the ...

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2. Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old Testament ...