"Dina d’malchuta dina (“the law of the land is the law”) requires Jews to obey the statutes of a legally constituted ...

They threw a pig into the Jew’s holy Temple in Jerusalem. They tried, often successfully, to lure Jews to adopt pagan traditions and abandon Jewish life. The Maccabees responded with a military ...

In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid ... New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, he holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature.

Over the next few decades the Maccabees’ successors Shimon the Kohen Gadol and after him his son Yochanan Hyrcanus I drove the Seleucids out of the central region around Jerusalem, then expanded ...

The natural miracle is the military victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks—despite ... Begunis founding head of Yeshivat Machon Meir in Jerusalem. There are two types of miracles we publicize ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... In the space of three years, the Jews recapture Jerusalem and purify the Temple (4:36). This purification and rededication of the Temple ...

In the original Chanukah, the Maccabees had driven the Syrian Greeks ... not only liberated Jerusalem, but relit the menorah with the last remaining pure oil that, despite being only sufficient ...

(CNN) — Here is some background information about the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. In 2025, Hanukkah will start on December 14 at sunset and will end December 22, at sunset. In 2024, Hanukkah will ...

In the Bible's Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant is linked to several miracles, such as protecting the Israelites from ...

They threw a pig into the Jew’s holy Temple in Jerusalem. They tried, often successfully, to lure Jews to adopt pagan traditions and abandon Jewish life. The Maccabees responded with a military ...

History of Hanukkah The background to Hanukkah lies in the second century BC when a Greek army led by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (who ruled 175 to 164 BC) marched into Jerusalem (2 Maccabees 5:11–14) ...