The Civil War Against The Maccabees. By. Rabbi Sholom Klass - 9 Tevet 5779 – December 16, 2018. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

BEN SHEMEN FOREST, Israel — Israeli archaeologists may be one step closer to solving a riddle that has vexed explorers for more than a century: the location of the fabled tomb of the biblical ...

A Jewish veteran’s apparel line celebrates the Maccabees’ fighting spirit — and space lasers. Copied to clipboard. For Web: Copy HTML. Copied to clipboard. For Print: Copy Plain Text.

In reality, the clashes between the Maccabees and the Greeks lasted 27 years of an extremely bloody and cruel war. We will need less, be"H. Israel National News ...

The biblical Books of the Maccabees, which include a tale of Jewish martyrs dying for their faith, are a source of inspiration in some Christian traditions. In the late 1880s, a succession of ...