Every year on Lag BaOmer, hundreds of thousands of Jews make a pilgrimage to Meron in Northern Israel to celebrate the Hilula de-Rashbi, honoring Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, known as Rashbi.

This photo essay by Agnieszka Traczewska documents the presence and revival of Hasidic Jewish life in Poland.

770 Eastern Parkway, the Brooklyn-based headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, has become an iconic and recognizable symbol of Jewish life worldwide.