Let us remember the Maccabees' heroism and of our incredible IDF soldiers, but also the quiet heroism of Rabbi Mordechai ...

The tradition is organized by the Jewish Community Alliance of Lancaster, but people of all religions are invited to attend.

From this perspective, the Menorah functions as a reminder of the Temple. As they left behind the ruins of the Temple, Jews ...

Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN — The area welcomed the first night of Hanukkah with a celebration ... It commemorates the Maccabees, a group of Jewish fighters who reclaimed the Second Temple in Jerusalem from ...

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 ...

like the Maccabees, had a responsibility to take up arms rather than remain perpetual victims of history. The late historian Joseph Klausner claimed that Hanukkah “was the first time in world ...

“Today we are lighting the first candle of Chanukah to mark the victory of the Maccabees then, and also the victory of the Maccabees of today,” said Netanyahu. “Like then, we are striking at ...

Known as the Festival of Lights, the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the rise of the Jewish people against Greek-Syrian oppressors more than 2,000 years ago. As the island's Jewish ...