Yeshiva Temimei Darech celebrates its 7th year - “and all sevenths are dear“ - of Lag BaOmer festival productions under the “One Flame” moniker, this year featuring yeshiva alumnus rap artist Ari ...
Lag BaOmer is a Jewish holiday that usually falls in the spring. According to Chabad, Lag BaOmer celebrates the life of Rabbi ...
The usual Lag Baomer celebration, attended by tens of thousands at Kever Rashbi has been cancelled this year, however smaller bonfire Meduras will be lit during the evening.
It was a time of great darkness in a Jewish town in Eastern Europe. On Lag BaOmer, the Jews walked the streets not with joy, but with sorrow and exhaustion. The Cossacks had broken into the towns, ...
Lag BaOmer is one of the more difficult holidays to define. When you scratch beneath the surface of burnt potatoes and ...
Editor’s note: Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews were killed in a stampede on April 29, 2021, while celebrating Lag B’Omer in the city of Meron in northern Israel. As details of the horrific incident are ...
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 ...
Yishai delves into two issues of intrigue: the Kabbalah and women. The holiday of Lag BaOmer is all about the victory of authentic Jewish culture and the Kabbalah — the mystical doctrines of the Torah ...
A Jewish holiday when communities light bonfires and children play with bows and arrows carries a message our culture desperately needs: how to debate war, politics and identity without losing respect ...
A few weeks (years, now) back DovBear discussed why we mourn during the sefira period (and why the currently espoused reasons may not be historically accurate). He then mentioned that the entire idea ...
(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 ...
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