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J udah (or Judas) Maccabee was an ancient Israelite independence fighter who defeated the anti-Jewish ruler King Antiochus IV in the 2nd Century BCE. Judah helped reestablish control over the Holy ...

No, I’m kidding – of course it is. Judah Maccabee is well-known to us at the hero of Hanukkah and the leader of the second century B.C.E. rebellion against the Syrian-Greeks occupying the Holy ...

Judah Maccabee, his father and his brothers are individuals who continue to provide us with that fighting spirit. Throughout my lifetime, it has occurred to me on numerous occasions, I actually ...

The real Judah Maccabee — the one that would be depicted in a serious biopic, as opposed to the mythic version Jewish kids might think of as a freedom-fighting Santa Claus — is not really a ...

One, Judah, was known as Maccabeus — Judah Maccabee. Frydman, who lives in Modi’in and has guided in the country for more than 30 years, read the verses while sitting on the boulders that ...

The news that Mel Gibson is going to make a biopic about Judah Maccabee, the great hero of the Hannukah story, did not come as a surprise to me. Well, it is somewhat surprising that Warner Bros.— ...

take on the story. By Jay A. Fernandez Producer Bruce Nash is pulling together a version of the Judah Maccabee story for a potential feature or miniseries that could rival Mel Gibson's planned ...

It looks like Judah Maccabee threw up in my dining room. And I love it. Dreidels hang from the ceiling, menorahs are fully candled, Hanukkah is here. Hanukkah crafts my kids made in preschool are ...

Maccabee, you might remember from Hebrew school, means “hammer,” but until recently, Jews in the New York area didn’t have many Instagram-worthy options for getting hammered in Judah ...