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What is the Lag BaOmer pilgrimage?

  • Written by Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
What is the Lag BaOmer pilgrimage?Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai at Mount Meron in northern Israel on April 29, 2021, as they celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer. Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images

The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel – which in 2022 falls on Wednesday night, May 18 – until recently has...

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