Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bronze coin from the Asia Minor city of Side found at Horbat Bet Zecharia south of Jerusalem, where the Maccabees fought the ...

Warner Bros. has put on hold a controversial Mel Gibson movie project about the Jewish Maccabee revolt in the 2nd Century B.C. after reading the script by writer Joe Eszterhas, TheWrap has learned. A ...

The news that Mel Gibson is planning to make a Judah Maccabee biopic has caused quite a stir. While Judah Maccabee is one of the greatest heroes in the history of Judaism for leading the revolt ...

As the insurgency in Iraq continues and questions about its outcome surface, one might look for possible historical parallels–and one of the most successful insurgencies against a colonial power in ...

This is Swiss-Italian artist Antonio Ciseri’s conception of the martyrdom of the Maccabee brothers in the revolt they led against Greece from 167-160 B.C. Ciseri lived from 1821-91. (Courtesy Photo) ...

Although George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” has come to be associated with Chanukah, it actually never touches on the miracle that the holiday commemorates: that a single day’s worth ...

New archaeological finds in the hills south of Jerusalem may offer the first material evidence from one of Judah Maccabee’s battles, The Press Service of Israel has learned, as the Hanukkah holiday ...