Why Is Lag BaOmer Celebrated? Lag BaOmer is celebrated for two different reasons. One is the end of a deadly plague that is believed to have killed a whopping 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva Ben Yosef.

Tragedy has struck before on Lag Ba’Omer at Mt. Meron. On Thursday, at least 45 Jews died and more than 150 were injured in a stampede at the mountain in northern Israel. In 1911, an estimated 10,000 ...

BERGENFIELD, New Jersey -- At least four Americans killed in the stampede in Israel during the holiday of Lag Ba'Omer have ties to the Tri-State area, according to ABC News. Among the victims ...

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