Forty thousand Israelis, led by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissan and Rabbi M. Goren, Chief Chaplain of the Israel Army, made a pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Bar Yochai author of the “Zohar,” at ...

Just under 200 years ago, the Ruzhyner Rebbe Rabbi Israel Friedman bought for himself and for his generations of heirs the right to light the first Lag B’Omer bonfire on the roof of Rabbi Shimon Bar ...

More than 250 weddings took place in Israel yesterday during the traditional Lag Ba’Omer celebrations which began at Miron, near Safed, at the Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai tomb. Israeli Army units paraded ...

LONGMEADOW — Many members of the Jewish community turned out for Sunday’s Lag B’omer celebration to commemorate the death of revered Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s death nearly 2,000 years ago. The Rashbi, ...

Lag B’Omer is a day of joy. And, like most Jewish holidays, food is part of the celebration. Lag B’Omer takes place on the 33rd day of the count of the Omer, which coincides with 18 Iyar. This year, ...

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman on Thursday warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Lag B’Omer, a Jewish holiday traditionally marked with bonfires, that the recent major blazes over ...

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 Staten Island Jewish community celebrated Lag B' Omer May 10 with games, crafts, marshmallow roasting and other fun at the idyllic Henry Kaufman Campgrounds in Sea View. The event was sponsored by ...

Lag B’Omer celebrations hosted by Chabad centers drew people that hadn’t attended events since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago. Lag B’Omer takes place annually on the 33rd day of the ...