Jewish Journal

Israeli Emergency-Service Workers at Mount Meron Tragedy: ‘It Was Apocalyptic’

United Hatzalah emergency-service workers attempt to evacuate the injured in Meron in northern Israel after Jewish worshippers were crushed during Lag B’Omer festivities, April 30, 2021. Credit: ...
COLlive

Lag B’Omer in Meron To Proceed With Strict Crowd Limits

Officials reached a decision overnight to move forward with the Lag B’Omer celebrations in Meron under a tightly controlled ...

Five years after Meron: Dubi Weissenstern on memory, mourning, and meaning

The head of ZAKA reflects on the lessons of the Lag Ba’omer tragedy – and what they reveal about resilience, responsibility, ...
The Forward

Don’t blame tragedies like Mount Meron — or the Holocaust — on imperfect faith

Soon after the Lag B’Omer tragedy on Mount Meron, the prominent Haredi rabbi Chaim Kanievsky said that women needed to more strictly adhere to laws of modesty to help “rectify the divine decree.” His ...
Jewish Journal

New Legislation Needed to Prevent Another Meron Tragedy, Experts Say

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of one of those who died in a stampede during the celebration of Lag Ba’Omer at the Jewish Orthodox pilgrimage site of Mount Meron on April 30, 2021. (Ilia ...
The Forward

How to grapple with the Lag B’Omer tragedy? Remember fate is random.

Every tragedy seems to cry out for an explanation. Initial explanations are practical and outline the worldly reasons why a terrible event occurred. For believers there is an additional burden — the ...
Altoona Mirror

Commentary — The real tragedy of Mount Meron

Rabbi Audrey Korotkin, Ph.D. First, let me state clearly, the loss of life was horrific: 45 men and boys killed in a stampede at a popular religious shrine in the north of Israel during a pilgrimage ...