"Eight hundred and eleven pounds of potatoes, 402 #challahs, 68 #chefs, 59 people named David and 27 people named Rachel. It all adds up to the world’s largest #Shabbat #dinner, which was organized by Temple Emanuel’s Streicker Center and held at the Javits Center on Friday night.
Some 2,800 #Jewish #NewYorkers packed the top floor of Javits North on 11th Avenue to participate in The Big Shabbat — an official attempt to host the largest #Shabbatdinner in history, as verified by the #GuinnessBook of #WorldRecords.
More than a year in the making, the massive dinner spotlighted dishes created by high-profile #Jewishchefs (Beejhy Barhany, Jake Cohen, Joan Nathan and Adeena Sussman) and featured entertainment from the likes of #Broadway stars Steven Skybell and Shoshana Bean, who performed “Sabbath Prayer” from “Fiddler on the Roof.”