The real deal was that, because of the temple takeover, the Jews hadn’t been able to observe the weeklong fall pilgrimage ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Just in time for Hanukkah, Israeli archaeologists have found the remains of the fortress from which Greeks controlled Jerusalem during the time of the Maccabees. The remains, which were discovered ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... Jonathan was from a priestly family, but not from the high priestly family of Zadok so some saw this as a usurpation of legitimate religious ...