Posts Tagged: Maccabees
Hannukah at a Hockey Rink
The Coyotes vs Panthers hockey game last Tuesday was no ordinary game. Chabad of Florida performed a menorah-lighting ceremony on the ice during the...
A Titanic Victory and a Small Cruse of Oil
David Brooks, in an engaging but superficial article on Hanukah in the New York Times (The Hanukah Story, NY Times, December 10, 2009), sheds light...
Mel Gibson to Make Film on Jewish Hero
A film on Judah Maccabee, the Jewish hero who led a revolt against the Greek-Syrians for control of the temple in Jerusalem, is...
The Morality of Killing Bin Laden
In imagining how we Americans would react to the news that Osama bin Laden had finally been killed, I expected mass expressions of relief. But...
