15. -- A very important State convention is to be held in this city, beginning to-morrow, by the flourishing fraternity known as the Knights of the Maccabees. The convention is called for the ...

The Maccabees rose up against the Seleucid Empire ... The revolt, led by Judas Maccabeus and his family, was a fight to reclaim not just their land but their identity and freedom to worship.

Will we Jews, Americans and Israelis, like descendants of the Maccabees, suffer the heartbreaking loss of our Third Jewish Commonwealth? What insight might Reform Jews take from the light of Hanukkah?