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Students Plan to Break Guiness World Record at Dreidel-Palooza

By Carla Zanoni | November 26, 2010 12:03pm

By Carla Zanoni

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A group of Yeshiva University students plan to answer a time-honored holiday question: Just how many dreidels can spin at the same time?

In honor of the Chanukah holiday, which begins next week, hundreds of students will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most people spinning dreidels, a game of chance where children spin a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side for prizes.

"Dreidel-Palooza," organized by Students Helping Students (SHS), aims to raise money for undergraduate scholarships at the school.

"Hopefully, all our spins will come out 'Gimmels' so everyone comes out a winner," Fiona Guedalia, co-president of SHS, told the school newspaper YUNews, referring to the Hebrew word on the winning side of the top, which means the player has won everything in the pot.

The current world record for most dreidels simultaneously spun was won in 2005 at Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill, NJ, where congregants spun a whopping 541 dreidels at once.

Dreidel-Palooza begins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at the Max Stern Athletic Center on Amsterdam Avenue at 184th Street. For more information about the event vissit the Dreidel-Palooza Facebook page.