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Heroes or rabble-rousers? The real story of the Maccabees

A Bernard Picart copper plate engraving circa 1730 depicting the Maccabees. (Public Domain)

If the story of Chanukah took place today, would contemporary Jews hail the Maccabees as heroes? Read more »

Second trial of Seattle federation shooter goes to jury

After nearly two months of testimony, the second trial for the man who went on a shooting spree at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle drew to a close with attorneys for the prosecution and defense presenting their closing arguments. Read more »

Heroes or rabble-rousers? The real story of the Maccabees A Bernard Picart copper plate engraving circa 1730 depicting the Maccabees. (Public Domain) If the story of Chanukah took place today, would contemporary Jews hail the Maccabees as heroes? Read more » Second trial of Seattle federation shooter goes to jury After nearly two months of testimony, the second trial for the man who went on a shooting spree at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle drew to a close with attorneys for the prosecution and defense presenting their closing arguments. Read more » Obama administration presses multilateral approach on Iran The Obama administration continues to favor multilateral sanctions when it comes to pressuring Iran, senior officials have said. Read more » Hillel's open tent helping to open minds Hillel has enjoyed success in the last decade-and-a-half with various approaches to welcoming uninvolved Jewish students and providing resources to Jewish activists, and it continues to evaluate their effectiveness while seeking to improve or replace them, its founding and current board chairs write. Read more »

Editors' Picks Fighting for Jerusalem: Secular vs. haredi (Jerusalem Post) Hundreds turn out for a protest against the "haredization" of Jerusalem. Watch the video. Raising the kids Jewish (Indianapolis Star) A look at Christian mothers who are raising Jewish children Breaking News A Chabad rabbi was attacked after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in Vienna. Some 200 fundamentalist Orthodox Christians in Moldova took down a public Chanukah menorah and planted a wooden cross in its place. An Israeli chief rabbi visited the West Bank village where a mosque was vandalized. President Obama said the Chanukah story of the Maccabees "reminds us that faith and perseverance are powerful forces that can sustain us in difficult times and help us overcome even the greatest odds." Israeli security officials are concerned that Palestinian attacks on Jews will increase after the torching of a West Bank mosque. A U.S. federal court ordered $2 billion in alleged Iranian assets frozen, the largest such freeze since just after Iran's 1979 revolution. Helping Iran promote itself in Latin America is a "really bad idea" for the countries involved, Hillary Rodham Clinton said. Paul Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics, has died. The U.S. House of Representatives approved current levels of defense assistance to Israel. Two letters circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives are seeking humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A captive Israeli soldier will not not be freed until Israel releases hundreds of Palestinians from its jails, Hamas said. Two Palestinians carrying a homemade bomb and a stun grenade were arrested at a West Bank checkpoint. Brazil's senate passed a bill to donate an area in the country's capital city for a building to house Palestinian representation to the country.