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 ...

Antakya, a city in southeastern Turkey at the Syrian border, was hit particularly ... The city’s namesake, Antiochus, was the villain of the Hanukkah story. Three members of the largely elderly ...

(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 ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new rulers touted a long-awaited national dialogue conference Tuesday as a “rare historic opportunity” to rebuild the country after the fall of President Bashar ...

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).

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 ...