Hanukkah commemorates the victory in 164 B.C. of a group of Jewish people (the Maccabees) over the Syrian Greeks, who had been occupying the Land of Israel since before 167 B.C. Not only had the ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... and rededication of the Temple is the basis for the Jewish feast of Hanukkah. After more victories, Judas dies in battle and is succeeded ...

Krisnsky prefers writing Hanukkah with an H instead of a C-H ... commemorates the time when a small group of Jews called the Maccabees rose up against Greek-Syrian rulers to rededicate the ...

Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, joyously celebrated by Jewish families lighting one candle of the Menorah candelabrum for eight days. It is in remembrance of their small army of Maccabees who ...

Greenberg then spoke of the origin of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights: More than 2,000 years ago, the Maccabees, Jewish rebels, freed their homeland from the Syrians and restored the Temple ...

Every year since then, Jewish people have celebrated their festival of lights, Hanukkah. They retell the story of the Maccabees, give gifts, eat special food and play games. And as they light the ...

Hanukkah (or Chanukah ... A group of Jewish people, known as the Maccabees, who wanted to restore Jewish religious practices and traditions, are said to have fought the powerful Syrian-Greek ...