Posts Tagged: Maccabean revolt
Hanukkah Irony: The Holiday’s Real Message is Alien to Most American Jews
According to the most recent authoritative study of American Jewry, conducted in 2020 by the Pew Research Institute, approximately 80% of respondents said they owned...
Bronze Coin Dating to Maccabean Revolt in Hanukkah Story Unearthed in Jerusalem
JNS.org - A bronze coin that was in circulation at the time of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who decreed that the Jews must be annihilated and during...
Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2013
1. For the first time - and never again - the first day of Chanukah will be celebrated on Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November, Nov. 28,...
Weather You Like it or Not: AccuWeather.com Creates a Palestinian State
It must be a surreal experience to go to sleep in one country and wake up in another - without leaving your bed, mind you. Yet,...
