Maccabee
Long before the world ever heard of Adolph Hitler, Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah, or Hamas, a Syrian king calling himself Antiochus  Epiphanes called for the destruction of the Jewish nation.  Against  impossible odds, one elderly priest and his five sons stood up to the king.One of those sons became known as the Maccabee.  It was the passion,  faith, and military genius of the Maccabee that culminated in what is  presently celebrated by Jews the world over as Hanukkah.  This is the story  of that man and the events that made him one of the great heroes of  freedom-loving people everywhere.