This September he formed the Tucson Maccabees soccer club, choosing a name that generations of Jewish athletes have played under in soccer and a variety of sports. Playing its first season this fall, ...

While on a class trip to the historic Ein Karem village in Jerusalem, Israel, a 10-year-old discovered an unexpected surprise. Nehorai Nir was picking edible plants with his class and believed he ...

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 ...

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 ...

When 10-year-old Nehorai Nir recently went on a class trip to the picturesque Ein Karem neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, he was picking edible plants on a hill and suddenly saw a colorful object ...

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 ...

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) ...

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.

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 ...

Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem and the miracle of ... Greeks defiled the Jerusalem Temple before the Maccabees, a group of Jewish soldiers, defeated them.

Other torches, kindled at Modi’in, gravesite of the Maccabees, were flown from Lydda ... when Bar-Kochba and his warriors were defending Jerusalem against the legions of Rome, coincided with ...