The Mighty Maccabee will Defend World Maccabiah Championship on March 2, 2025, at Livingston (NJ) High School Against Former WWE and WCW Wrestler Crowbar This marks The Mighty Maccabee's first ...

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, ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

Chanukah commemorates the heroism of the Maccabees from Modiin in Israel. Almost single-handedly, they stood out against the Syrian Greek rulers who had succeeded in Hellenizing a large part of Israel ...

The Jewish festival of Hannukah, which this year runs from 25 December to 2 January, actually has a lot in common with the Christian Christmas. This is the story ... Hannukah is an annual Jewish ...

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 ...

The Book of Judith is not in the Hebrew Bible — like the Books of Maccabees, it was incorporated into the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian bibles and is included in the “Apocrypha ...

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.

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2. Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old Testament ...

Though the Bible refers – in many places – to the ... the non-conformist army, the Maccabees, were able to fight and win the rededication of their temple in Jerusalem.

We usually speak of Maccabees in the plural, because the five brothers delivered their blows best as a clenched fist. Americans grow up on the Lone Ranger, on Superman and his fortress of Solitude ...