The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel attracts as many as half a million visitors every year. Because of COVID-19, this year’s event was less crowded, but even so, over 100,000 ...

(JTA) After months of distanced learning, Sharon Levin was excited for her school to celebrate Lag BaOmer together with a day of outdoor activities. The spring holiday, which is popular among students ...

The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel – which in 2022 falls on Wednesday night, May 18 – until recently has attracted as many as half a million visitors every year. The annual ...

ISRAEL -- A fifth victim from the Tri-State area was killed in the stampede at a religious festival in Israel Thursday night. 21-year-old Menachem Knoblowitz of Borough Park, Brooklyn was buried just ...

When I first accepted an invitation to attend the Lag BaOmer celebration and Shabbat service at Chabad Singer Island, I didn’t realize how significant that event would turn out to be. The Thursday ...

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JERUSALEM — An Israeli government commission investigating a deadly accident at a Jewish pilgrimage site in April held its first day of hearings Sunday, almost four months after the stampede at Mt.

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(The Conversation) — A scholar of Jewish history explains why the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel has such power and meaning. (The Conversation) — The annual Lag BaOmer ...