In the earliest stages of the Maccabean Revolt, Judas had a small band of guerrilla combat units in the hills of northern Judea and southern Samaria. Apollonius was sent with the local Samaritan ...

For this early stage of the revolt, it is more plausible that the Maccabees ambushed a smaller detachment of soldiers rather than attacking a huge army. The claim that "terror" befell the Gentiles in ...

That first impression hooked Segal on soccer and led to a life playing and coaching the world’s most popular game. This September he formed the Tucson Maccabees soccer club, choosing a name that ...

Anton Samborskyi was an orphan, and the Azman family gave him the Hebrew name Matisyahu (Motia) in honour of the heroic leader of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire more than 2,200 ...

The Azman family adopted Matisyahu in 2002, when he was 11. Anton Samborskyi was an orphan, and the Azman family gave him the Hebrew name Matisyahu (Motia) in honour of the heroic leader of the ...

Matisyahu was a Jewish freedom-fighter during the Maccabean revolt. “I have received tens of thousands of words of sympathy and support,” Azman said in a social media post on Friday announcing ...

This course included discussions on the Hasmonean kingdom, Antiochus’s decrees, and the Maccabean revolt. He completed it with a grade of 94. Sinwar displayed a keen interest in the formative ...

The son of Moshe Azman, the leader of Kyiv’s Brodsky synagogue and one of several self-declared Ukrainian “chief rabbis,” has died in battle against the Russians, Azman announced Wednesday.

Matisyahu was a Jewish freedom-fighter during the Maccabean revolt. “I have received tens of thousands of words of sympathy and support,” Azman said in a social media post on Friday announcing ...