A very important State convention is to be held in this city, beginning to-morrow, by the flourishing fraternity known as the Knights of the Maccabees. The convention is called for the purpose of ...

LIMA, Ohio, July 23. -- E.L. Smith, an attorney of Tippecanoe City, is conducting an agitation among the members of the Knights of the Maccabees, directed against the policy of the present supreme ...

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 ...

These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, fought when it was difficult and when we were the minority. We witnessed many battles of the few facing the many.

(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Hanukkah, celebrated next week, tells the story of the Maccabees – fighters who stood against tyranny, reclaimed their freedom, and rededicated the Temple ...