I know I already posted this in another thread but wanted to make a special one for the Making Aliyah area.

This was my first Lag B'Omer after making Aliyah and it was the first time I was in Meron on Lag B'Omer. Being in Eretz Yisrael on Lag B'Omer really shows you what Lag B'Omer is all about. It's nothing like the baseball game I played in Ally Pond Park (though those were definitaly loads of fun! Except it seemed to rain every year. )

I managed to get some photos of some bon fires in Har Nof. (There must have been at least 50 huge bonfires at the edge of Har Nof - maybe more.) I was also at a big Gala Concert/Event for Maza (a JA program that many Yeshivas and Sems are part of) - I think Shlomo Simcha (I think it was him) sung. It was really something and yes, I have pics. Got to sort them out. Stay tuned.

Then we headed up to Meron and I have sorted those pics out. Posted them on my blog here and here.

So how did you send Lag B'Omer in Eretz Yisrael? And do you have some photos to share?

So why did you take a picture of the bathrooms? And why did you post it?

Nice collection.

I wasn't in Israel on Lag Baomer nor did I take pix, but I can tell you anyway how I spent Lag Ba'Omer: I went to three events @ YU (one was technically before Lag Ba'omer cuz it was before shkiyah, but whatever): a panel discussion called "disengagement from the land, disengagement from the people" by some Israeli rabbis from an organization called Tzohar (http://www.tzohar.org.il/en_tzohar.pdf), a lecture in the "Torah U'madah" lecture series called "the rise and fall of modern orthodoxy in America" (or something like that) (the whole time I was thinking, Who cares? Why don't we all make aliyah? I'd only gone to this speaker because he's a sociologist, and I'm a sociology major, so I figured it would be interesting, which it was), and a Midnite Remedy (http://www.midniteremedy.com/) concert followed by some dancing. All of which were accompanied by free food.

I better stop procrastinating now- I have a take-home final that's due at midnight!

I know I'm really late...
The night of we went to Meiron...whoever wanted to go was more then welcome, and the school rented us a bus. We got there at about 1:30 in the morning. My friends and I went into the mass of people and found our way to the kever. We attempted to get in but were litereally swept off our feet by the tidal wave of women pushing us. We ended up somewhere around the kever, and we davened there until we had to head back to the bus at 3. On the way, we found the top of the kever with the women's bonfire. That was cool.
We headed home, and arrived back to the dorm at 6:30. My roommates and I davened shachris quickly and hopped into bed. We woke up at around 1:30, and they got ready to go to the school BBQ while I got ready for my nephew's upsherin in Har Nof.
And that was my Lag B'Omer...memories!