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The goal of this NYC Shabbat dinner? Break a world record.

JL;DR SUMMARY Gady Levy, the executive director of Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center in Manhattan, is ambitiously aiming to host the world's largest Shabbat dinner to break the current Guinness World Record. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityNew York CityShabbatJewish UnityTemple Emanu ElShabbat TraditionsGuinness World RecordUja FederationGady LevyStreicker Cultural Center

Places mentioned

Manhattan, New York, United States
"For six years, Gady Levy, executive director of the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center in Manhattan, has had a dream: to host the worlds largest Shabbat dinner."
Berlin, Germany
"The previous record, documented by the Guinness Book of World Records, was set in Berlin in 2015, when 2,322 people gathered for a Shabbat meal during the European Maccabi Games."
California, United States
"As both a camper and a counselor at Camp Ramah in California, Levy recalls Shabbat being his favorite part of camp."
Jerusalem, Israel
"However, Levy did share his plans to build a reproduction of the Kotel, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where people can write notes and stuff them into the wall, as is customarily done in Jerusalem."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Sussman, who lives in Tel Aviv, will fly to New York for the event."
New Jersey, United States
"prepared by In Thyme Catering together with Yalla Teaneck, certified kosher by the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, New Jersey."

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