In one, recounted in the First and Second Books of Maccabees, a small band of ancient Jewish zealots defeat the Seleucid army, which is intent on eliminating Jewish religious and cultural practice ...

Few ancient sites in the Holy Land have ignited the imagination like the lost tombs of the Maccabees, the family that led a Jewish rebel army to victory against Seleucid religious repression in ...

Hanukkah, which begins this year on Sunday evening (Nov. 28), commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees defeated the Hellenistic army about 164 BCE, opening the ...

Just in time for Hanukkah (the holiday in Israel also know as the “Festival of Lights”), archeologists revealed new evidence of the long battle between Hellenists and Hasmoneans in the holy land.. Who ...

U.S. Army Maj. Kenneth May, deputy command chaplain at U.S. Army Central Command forward, plays the guitar for attendees of a menorah lighting ceremony on Dec. 10, 2020, on Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Sgt.

Though the holiday is popularly known as the festival of lights, it is also the festival of rededication, meant to honor the victory of the Macabee soldiers over the Syrian Greek army. In their ...

But this was also the first time the Maccabees had played since Israel was attacked by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, and the players, some from Israel, some wearing kipas on their heads, yearned to ...