Lisa Keys, writing for Jewish Telegraph Agency:

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 New Yorkers packed the top floor of Javits North on 11th Avenue to participate in The Big Shabbat — an official attempt to host the largest Shabbat dinner in history, as verified by the Guinness Book of World Records.

This is absolutely incredible, and I wish I had known about it in advance.