It got a dark half laugh from the crowd, but I couldn’t shake the thought that this “messy” part of the story mirrors ... a descendant of the Maccabees—heroes of Hanukkah—used his ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc.

Greenberg then spoke of the origin of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights: More than 2,000 years ago, the Maccabees, Jewish rebels, freed their homeland from the Syrians and restored the Temple ...

Years earlier, Rabbi Lynn had visited Treblinka with another group on Hanukkah ... like the candles of the Maccabees. When Rabbi Lynn finished recounting his story, tears welled in his eyes.

While many are familiar with elements of Hanukkah—such as the miracle of the oil or the Maccabees' victory over the Seleucid (Greco-Syrian) empire to rededicate the Temple in the 160s BCE—there exists ...

Peg and Cat are celebrating Hanukkah at Albert Einstein's house! He shows them how to make a 2D piece of paper into a 3D dreidel. Later, they use 2D and 3D shapes to bring peace to Al's home and save ...

Hallie Rubenhold’s “Story of a Murder” chronicles a killing, featuring sex, dentures and tightrope walkers.

Jewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry – and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears ...