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 ...

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi lit Hanukkah candles on Monday with injured soldiers from the war in Gaza at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, the IDF announced Monday. “I often visit ...

So why this tradition? The story of Hanukkah stretches back over 2,000 years to a time when the Jewish people living in and around Jerusalem were ruled by Syrian-Greeks (more on this later).

(JTA) — For years, the Hanukkah llama has been a corny cliche ... The story begins in 168 B.C.E., when the Syrian Goat Greeks, led by the mountain goat version of King Antiochus, take over ...

Krisnsky prefers writing Hanukkah with an H instead of a C-H ... small group of Jews called the Maccabees rose up against Greek-Syrian rulers to rededicate the Temple of Jerusalem and light ...

BERLIN (JTA) — A group of Syrian refugee children — along with other Muslim groups in Berlin — joined with Jewish groups for a public Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony in the German city.

Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after its ruin by the Syrian Greeks in 164 BCE - and especially the miracle by which a jar of oil found in the temple ...