Lag BaOmer

Walk around any town in Israel in the days leading up to Lag B’Omer, and you’ll know the holiday is approaching by the bands of children collecting wood.

Russian Jewish communities from Moscow to the edges of Siberia turned their attention this week to the joys of Judaism and Jewish unity on the festive holiday of Lag BaOmer. Throughout the past year, hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries across the vast...

While preparations for Lag BaOmer are underway at Chabad Houses around the world this week, emissaries in one city are especially hard at work: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok and Chana Ruth Halperin of Chabad-Lubavitch of Meron, a small village of 1,091 residents, ...

BE’ER SHEVA—Lag BaOmer is nearing, and like every year, children and adults in Israel are bustling about, gathering scrap wood for the biggest and best bonfires, preparing for parades, and buying charcoal and meats for barbecues in parks and fields around...

Lag BaOmer is the holiday of Jewish unity, and its symbolism is being widely felt by the thousands of Ukrainian Jewish refugees celebrating the day in the warm embrace of their adopted Jewish communities. In Ukraine, where the Jewish population has felt a...

As the sun comes out and the trees sway in full bloom, Jewish communities around the world will gather in backyards, streets, parks and even cemeteries in celebration of Jewish pride, unity and mysticism, beginning the evening of May 18 until sundown on M...

JERUSALEM—One year after 45 participants lost their lives in the midst of the traditional all-night Lag BaOmer religious celebration near the hallowed resting place of revered second-century sage Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai, hundreds of thousands of celebrant...

“Any idea that comes to mind on Lag BaOmer will be successful.” That’s what Sara Armet, a fashionista and luxury personal shopper from Manhattan’s chic Upper East Side, heard at a Lag BaOmer event she attended last year with the community she considers he...

As the world peeks its head out from underneath the coronavirus pandemic with vaccines gaining steam in many places, prospects look positive for celebrations on Lag BaOmer—the Jewish holiday that has become a family festival celebrated outdoors the world ...

MELBOURNE, Australia—From Dunedin on the southern tip of New Zealand to Townsville in Australia’s tropical north, they came together on Lag BaOmer as “one people with one heart.” The tough coronavirus lockdowns since mid-March down under haven’t dampened ...