The holiday of Lag BaOmer is one of the happiest days on the calendar for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community — a time of mass celebrations in honor of a revered sage. But in a split second Friday, the ...
Lag B’Omer revelry returned in full swing to Mount Meron Thursday as tens of thousands of revelers packed the mountain tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to the brim come nightfall, singing and dancing ...