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 Maccabees fought a defensive war for religious freedom, while Hamas’s actions are rooted in an ideology that seeks the destruction of Israel and employs tactics condemned by international law.

as evidenced by the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks. At present, we must publicize the great miracle of our generation: the revival of the People of Israel in the Land of Israel after the long ...

Certain “Jewish organizations” deemed Israel “problematic,” “triggering ... We usually speak of Maccabees in the plural, because the five brothers delivered their blows best as ...

And history records that the Maccabees’ first victim was not a ... there was Jewish independence in Israel (albeit only in a small area to start with). The Seleucid Empire could so easily ...

Antiochus banned Jewish practices and desecrated the Holy Temple, much as terrorists on October 7 violated the sanctity of Israeli homes and communities in Israel’s South. His empire ...

Over two thousand years later the descendants of the Maccabees once again stand watch. In the days of the Seleucid Empire, Israel existed as a beleaguered encampment surrounded by the Syrian ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... At the time of 1 Macc, the land of Israel was caught in the crossfire of the ancient Greek empires. 1 Macc begins with the death of Alexander ...

and when hundreds of rockets began to fall on southern Israel and Hamas terrorists began to infiltrate the border, Keith did not run for safety. Instead, like the brave Maccabees before him and ...

Daniel came to Israel full of hope and a desire to contribute ... for joy and for seeking peace, but who, like the Maccabees thousands of years earlier, are also willing to stand up to defend ...