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 ...

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 ...

A year after The Maccabees revealed plans to split their former frontman, Orlando Weeks, has announced details of his debut book, The Gritterman. A companion album will be released alongside it. Weeks ...

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 ...

As this week sees the release of his debut solo album and accompanying book, Orlando Weeks has spoken out about life after The Maccabees and what the future holds. After the band played their final ...

Former member of The Maccabees, Orlando Weeks, has created an illustrated children’s book about a gritterman for Penguin Press. The “beautifully illustrated story” is about a “seasonal hero and the ...