Lag B’omer – Jewish Unity Parade & Fair

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Free Admission (all rides free): 50 rides & games!!!
Musical Festival - Yossi Bayles and the YBO Orchestra, Florida Jewish Stars, LEC Boys Choir, Dr Laz, & the Skafyah Reggea Band.
Incredible Parade with many beautiful Floats will start the event off! (10am)...

Thousands Expected at Jewish Unity Parade & Fair, Sunday, May 22
Lag B’omer Festival at Gulfstream Park to feature: Over 50 Free Unlimited
Rides, Carnival Games, Bonfire & Jewish Music Stars
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 marks the festive Jewish holiday of Lag B’omer. A
massive show of Jewish unity and pride will be displayed as the South
Florida Jewish community will join celebrations taking place throughout the globe
with its own grandiose “Lag B’omer Unity Parade & Fair” at the beautiful
newly renovated Gulfstream Park on the corner of US1 in Hallandale. The
special event is being held on Sunday, May 2nd from 10am-4pm.

The parade and fair will commence at 10am with an exciting marching parade
featuring colorful Jewish themed floats plus music, marching bands,
dancing and juggling clowns.

The glamorous parade will begin at the SE corner of Hallandale Beach Blvd
and US1 from the Gulfstream Promenade Shopping Center and will march on US1
with unwavering Jewish pride. Following the parade, children can enjoy
unlimited fun on over 50 amusement park rides free of charge plus many
carnival games as well.

The fair will also feature a free concert starring Florida’s Jewish Stars,
the energetic beats of Jewish Reggae Skafyah Band and the ever popular
Yossi Bayles and his YBO Orchestra singing contemporary, traditional and
sefardic tunes. Dr Laz will also perform. In addition, the Lag B‘omer Parade and
Fair will offer a glatt Kosher barbecue and traditional bonfire.
The free rides, music fest and food court will all take place in Gulfstream
’s parking lot just outside the beautiful Kosher superstore, Jacob’s
Classic Market.

Lag B'omer marks the passing of the great Talmudic scholar Rabbi Shimon
bar Yochai, author of the pioneering book of Jewish Mysticisim,-the Zohar.
Rabbi Shimon requested that his day of passing be celebrated as a joyous
day.

The day also marks the end of a terrible plague that befell the students
of the esteemed Rabbi Akivah.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M Schneerson, of blessed memory,
initiated the tradition of Lag B'omer Parades, especially for children. Today,
sixty seven years after the inaugural Lag B'omer Parade in Brooklyn in
1944, Lag B'omer Parades are a tradition in Jewish communities throughout the
world.
The more than 100 Chabad Centers in South Florida are coming together to
help organize for the entire Jewish community a spectacular day of
festivities by offering the ultimate “Lag B’Omer Unity Parade and Fair” – Free of
charge. Thousands of men, women and children from throughout South Florida
are expected to attend, en-masse, to express Jewish Pride, Joy and Unity.

This year is the second consecutive year that the Parade and Fair is being
held at Gulfstream. Last year’s event was enjoyed by more than 12,000
guests. Organizers will make sure that plenty of shade is provided to guarantee
a day of tremendous celebration together with absolute comfort.

Gulfstream Park in Hallandale is geared up for this special event. The
venue is ideal and centrally located to benefit the Jewish Communities of
Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties.

For more information please go to: www.JewishUnityParade.com, email: [email protected] or call 561-998-5391