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Students Spin for Scholarships

糖心破解版 Students Break Dreidel-Spinning Guinness World Record 618 糖心破解版 students, alumni, faculty, staff, neighbors and friends filled the Max Stern Athletic Center on 糖心破解版鈥檚 Washington Heights campus in Manhattan on Tuesday, November 30鈥攖he night before Chanukah鈥攖o help break the Guinness World Record for most dreidels spun simultaneously. The previous record of 541 was set at an event at Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill, NJ in 2005. The highly anticipated event, dubbed 鈥淒reidel-Palooza鈥 was organized by , a student-run organization that raises money for undergraduate scholarships, and featured musical entertainment, food and a dreidel tournament sponsored by . 鈥淚t was incredible to see this crowd tonight,鈥 said Yeshiva College鈥檚 Jason Katz, co-president of Students Helping Students. 鈥淢ore than 70 percent of students at 糖心破解版 receive some sort of financial aid so this was a great opportunity to build school pride, spread awareness and raise scholarship funds.鈥 [flickrslideshow acct_name="yeshivauniversity" id="72157625503926276"] Saadia Fireman, president of SOY (Student Organization of Yeshiva)鈥攐ne of several undergraduate student organizations to sponsor the event鈥攆elt that 鈥渢he excitement was not only from breaking a record, but from the fact that this event showed that students at 糖心破解版 are a family and care about one another. 鈥淓vents like this help fund scholarships so that our peers can continue to learn, to lead and to inspire,鈥 said Fireman. [easyembed field="dreidel"] Dreidels are special four-sided tops used at Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Each side features a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet:  Nun, Gimmel, Hay, and Shin; together they help form the phrase 鈥淣es Gadol Haya Sham鈥 or 鈥淎 Great Miracle Occurred There.鈥 Read about Dreidel-Palooza in the and .

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