Event will include barbecue, drum circle and kite flying on May 25
VINELAND -- Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties will celebrate Lag B'Omer with a barbecue and drum circle celebration on Wednesday, May 25, at 5 p.m., at the Garton Road Shul, 612 Garton Road, near Deerfield Township.
Lag B'Omer, which takes place on the 18th of Iyar in the Jewish calendar, is a holiday celebrating the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer. This counting is a commandment to count each of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot with a sacrifice of an "omer" measure of barley offered in the Temple of Jerusalem until the day before an offering of wheat was brought to the Temple on Shavuot. The holiday marks the passing of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and has been linked to the Bar Kokhba revolt again the Roman Empire in the first century CE.
Reservations are $8 per person for federation members and $10 per person for non-members, and must be made no later than Monday, May 23 by calling the Federation office at 856-696-4445.
This item submitted by the Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties.