Maccabees

Yeshiva U basketball team forfeits crucial game, citing inadequate warmup time after Shabbat

The forfeit means that the Y.U. Maccabees enter the postseason ranked No. 3 in their division, not No. 1 as they were last year.

Yeshiva University men’s basketball team will avoid Shabbat games for NCAA Division III tournament

The initial schedule was changed after the flagship university of Modern Orthodox Judaism was slated to play on Saturday afternoon.

These Brit-Rock Maccabees Are Not What You’d Expect

Don’t confuse The Maccabees with The Maccabeats. The latter is a popular Jewish a capella group based at Yeshiva University. The former was a popular British rock band that played at some of the biggest music festivals in the world before breaking up in August. The other significant difference? None of the members of the […]