Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 ...

That’s why we’ve combed through the newest self-help books to bring you the 12 most useful published ... none of that stopped him from producing ten No. 1 movies at the box office that grossed over $1 ...

Our current decade has brought in some great recent reads — see our picks here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

However, the story is told in the books of Maccabees. Key references are found in 1 Maccabees 4:36, 52–59 and in 2 Maccabees 1:18 and 10:5. The books of Maccabees were included in the Septuagint, the ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review ...

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 ...