Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, whose passing Jews commemorate on the day of Lag Baomer, might be considered a great ecologist. Yet widespread bonfire practice has turned this day into the one with the ...

Lag BaOmer is approaching, and many Israelis commemorate this holiday by having a big bonfire in their backyard. Unfortunately, the benign intentions of those fires may have malignant consequences ...

However, this explanation does not shed much light on Lag BaOmer’s famous bonfires. To understand this practice, we need to look at an alternative explanation found in Rabbinic literature for ...

Lag BaOmer is often celebrated with bonfires, street festivals and parades. Many celebrants spend time outdoors taking in the beauty of nature. Marking the end of a mourning period, many Jewish ...

The Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer falls in May 2025, and it's one of the most festive days in the Hebrew calendar. If you see a lot of Jewish celebrants at bonfires and street fairs—or hosting big ...

A special Lag BaOmer bonfire is planned in Sa-Nur, one of the four communities the Sharon government has slated for uprooting, this Thursday night. A convoy of private cars will set off from ...

Picture: Supplied. (Supplied) A crowd of hundreds were showered in balls of flame as the bonfire erupted during Jewish Lag BaOmer celebrations in Stamford Hill. Picture: Supplied. (Supplied ...

Hundreds gathered in Stamford Hill, London for Lag BaOmer - where handsets were tossed into bonfires 'as a warning against the evil of smartphones' UP to 30 people have been injured after an ...

There could be double trouble this year on Lag Ba’omer if parents do not properly supervise their children during bonfires. Although the festival falls on Saturday night and Sunday, the Chief ...