Enter the Maccabees, a group of Jewish priests turned warriors, who managed to vanquish the Greek armies. The Greeks, as their final act of revenge against the Jews, destroyed all the pure oil, ...

The light miraculously burned for eight nights. It's a holiday that commemorates the time when a small group of Jews called the Maccabees rose up against Greek-Syrian rulers to rededicate the ...

but it represented the great aspirations of the Jewish people and displayed the power of God even though the dynasty was tarnished by ambition and human weakness. The Maccabees' incredible ...

Lighting the menorah is not just festive; it’s a meditation on the living miracle of Jewish survival and the responsibility to keep that flame alive. The Maccabees didn’t just fight for ...

Around him, his Maccabees bandmates build the tumbling, spiky layers of ‘Marks To Prove It’, recreating the urgent magic that’s seen the title track of their 2015 album light up stages ...

The Jewish people were really upset and angry about this and they didn’t know what to do. But there was a brave family called the Maccabees, who decided to fight against King Antiochus.

A group of Jewish people, known as the Maccabees, who wanted to restore Jewish religious practices and traditions, are said to have fought the powerful Syrian-Greek army over the course of three ...

Hanukkah commemorates the victory in 164 B.C. of a group of Jewish people (the Maccabees) over the Syrian Greeks, who had been occupying the Land of Israel since before 167 B.C. Not only had the ...

Greenberg then spoke of the origin of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights: More than 2,000 years ago, the Maccabees, Jewish rebels, freed their homeland from the Syrians and restored the Temple ...