Posts Tagged: Maccabees
Denying Jewish Sovereignty of Israel is Antisemitic
JNS.org - In just a few weeks, the Jewish people will celebrate Chanukah, commemorating the end of the Greek occupation of Jerusalem and the restoration...
A Call to Action: Join the Maccabees
JNS.org - Hanukkah is a joyous time, as it should be. But many Jews celebrate it superficially, merely by eating latkes and sufganiyot, spinning dreidels...
Israel’s Archaeologists Unearth Evidence of Hanukkah Stories
i24 News - A fortress from the Hellenistic period, destroyed and set on fire by the Hasmonean rebels, was unearthed during excavations carried out by...
Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2019
1. Chanukah’s historical context is narrated in the four Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus, and The Wars of the Jews. The Greek Empire...
American Jewry’s Hanukkah Hypocrisy?
JNS.org - The New York Times’s coverage of Jewish topics has long been fodder for those who study both media bias and the complicated relationship between the...
After Months of Closure, IDF Opens Ancient Maccabee Palaces to Hanukkah Tourists
The Israel Defense Forces have reopened the archaeological site of the ancient palaces of the Maccabees to tourists in honor of Hanukkah. According to the Hebrew...
Hanukkah Memories
Every year, as Hanukkah approaches, I remove the First Book of Maccabees from my book case. The inscribed purchase date, November 1977, anticipated the Hanukkah following...
Hanukkah and Divine Emanations
History -- the study of cause and effect in the annals of humankind -- has been a serious challenge for honest historians. In many ways, interpreting history is conjecture....
Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. Hanukkah’s historical context, according to the Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The War of the Jews by Joseph Ben Mattityahu (Josephus Plavius) is as...
Kings of the Jews: Hasmoneans & Herodians
Following Jerusalem's destruction in 586 B.C.E., the Jewish People became subject to a series of foreign empires—Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman. The Maccabean Revolt in...
Miracles and Victories
The first Hanukkah candle has been lit. What we know about this ancient holiday comes largely from The First Book of Maccabees, which recounts the...
A Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2014
1. Chanukah (×—× ×•×›×”) is education (×—× ×•×›)-oriented. According to the first book of Maccabees, Judah the Maccabee instituted an eight day holiday on the 25th day of the Jewish month of...
Explaining the ‘Maccabees’ Moniker for Jewish Athletics
Jewish athletes from around the world gather every four years in Israel for the Olympic-style Maccabiah Games, not to mention the annual JCC Maccabi Youth...
What G-d Says About Truly Great Leaders
It was the emotional low of Moses' life. After the drama at Sinai, the revelation, the golden calf, the forgiveness, the building of the...
