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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘We are living in a very difficult time,” says Dubi Weissenstern, CEO of ZAKA. “We simply don’t understand what’s happening.” Over the past six years, ZAKA, Israel’s emergency response service that ...

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 ...