There aren't many song sin the world about the sheer delicacy of becoming a father for the first time, but Orlando Weeks delivers perhaps the best.

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

The Maccabees have sparked rumours of an appearance at Glastonbury Festival (Picture: Tom Pullen/REX/Shutterstock) The Maccabees have sparked Glastonbury reunion rumours eight years after their ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

The Maccabees sparked whispers of a reunion in October and they have now confirmed they are back together and performing again. The five-piece band, fronted by Orlando Weeks, are already booked to ...

TOMB OF the Maccabees near present-day Mevo Modi’im. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) The Maccabees’ guerrilla warfare campaign lasted three years. Through strategic attacks, they gradually ...

Of this same thing in the Maccabees [it says], `Was not Abraham found faithful when tested, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness' (1 Maccabees 2:52)." St. Cyprian of Carthage, "Treatises" c.

Here, the Hasmoneans, or Maccabees as they became known, clearly highlight the answer. Matityahu was an elderly kohen of the Hasmonean family and, together with his five sons, decided to declare ...

The natural miracle is the military victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks—despite being few and weak, the Maccabees triumphed over the numerous and powerful Greeks with the assistance of Hashem.

While Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that lasted for eight days, it also celebrates the miraculous victory of a small rag-tag group of Jews, known as the Maccabees, over a much more ...

This Chanukah I join Jews around the world in celebrating Israel’s recent military victories, that parallel the holiday’s commemoration of the Maccabees’ triumphant war against the powerful ...