This forum post didn’t show up when I searched on Separator. Not sure why but crawling through the sub-forum manually unearthed it.
http://www.jqwidgets.com/community/topic/how-do-i-add-a-separator-when-loading-from-an-array/
The post indicates a feature request for separator items in array based menus being added to your backlog around November 2012. Is there any update on this request?