In midsummer, the Orthodox Churches commemorate the Holy Maccabees who fought and sacrificed their lives to resist the idolatrous and pagan pressure of the Greeks who wanted to impose their pagan ...

Archeologist Dan Shachar cleans a mosiac cross from the Byzantine Period discovered in a large mausoleum uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority while searching for the real location of the Tomb ...

A large mausoleum recently uncovered in Israel may be the Tomb of the Maccabees, the celebrated Jewish family that led an uprising against the Greeks in the second century B.C. Archaeologists, however ...

At the Dec. 5 meeting of the Los Angeles General Assembly — the utterly democratic body that acts to guide, if not exactly govern, Occupy Los Angeles — a facilitator named Chase posed the following ...

The great British Jewish historian, Cecil Roth (1899-1970), makes a fascinating point about the Maccabean revolt (in the gendered language common in his generation): “It was one of the decisive events ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — In 165 BCE, a group of warriors led by Judah Maccabee and his band of brothers ushered in a new era in Jewish history when they routed the soldiers of the Greek-Syrian empire and ...