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 ...

Around him, his Maccabees bandmates build the tumbling, spiky layers of ‘Marks To Prove It’, recreating the urgent magic that’s seen the title track of their 2015 album light up stages ...

This coming Monday, we will begin the new month of Kislev, which means it’s Hanukkah time once again. The story of Hanukkah is well known to every Jew from kindergarten onward, the story of the ...