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Lag Ba’omer, traditional festival day, was celebrated by large crowds throughout the entire country yesterday, and particularly in Jerusalem. Large banners with inscriptions bearing the reply of the Jewish National Home to the burning of Jewish books in Germany were a feature of the celebration. Banners were unfurled paraphrasing the biblical story of the burning […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315