History has regarded Judah Maccabee as one of the most brilliant military strategists of all time; for that reason, there is a statue of him at West Point. Or perhaps there was a larger miracle ...

He finished in Hebrew: “Chag Hanukkah Sameach.” Biden’s comments echoed a comparison between Zelensky and Judah Maccabee, the hero of the Hanukkah story, that emerged early on in Ukraine’s ...

Is Nathan Fielder trying to be God, Judah Maccabee, Queen Esther or just a maniacal artist? Episode 5 suggests that all might be true. Spoiler alert: This piece contains plot details about HBO’s ...

In Jewish history, the Maccabees embody the miracle of Hanukkah. In Israel today, Maccabi is one of the country’s health care organizations that manage to produce medical miracles every day.

Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar, when, according to Jewish tradition, Judas Maccabee (Judah) cleansed the Second Temple in 164 BCE by removing all statues of Greek ...

After reclaiming the temple, Judah Maccabee led his followers to cleanse the Holy Temple and rebuild it. When Maccabee and the other Jewish people took part in the rededication of the temple ...

was rededicated by Judah Maccabee, who led the insurgency begun by his father, the high priest Mattathias. According to the story of Hanukkah, Maccabee and his soldiers wanted to light the temple ...