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b'CHERRY HILL, NJ -- December 18, 2005 -- Just a week before the beginning of Hanukkah, Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill, N.J., the largest Reform synagogue in New Jersey, has broken the world\\u2019s record for dreidel spinning, with 541 dreidels spun simultaneously for at least ten seconds.\\n\\nThis is an audio news release from the event. Stereo MP3 audio file, 1:45 length, standard outcue.\\n\\nRadio stations are welcome to use this audio report. Please email steve@lubetkin.net with broadcast usage report.\\n\\nBackground Information\\n\\nAccording to the Guinness Book of World\\u2019s Records, the previous world\\u2019s record of 535 people simultaneously spinning dreidels was set by University of Maryland Hillel in 1999. Today\\u2019s dreidel spin record involved 578 participants, including \\u2013 in an ecumenical demonstration of interfaith cooperation -- a contingent of students from Bishop Eustace Preparatory School, a private Catholic school in Pennsauken.\\n\\n\\u201cWe are absolutely thrilled that we\\u2019ve broken the world\\u2019s record for dreidel spinning,? said Rabbi Debbie Cohen, director of life long learning at the synagogue and organizer of the world record dreidel spin. \\u201cMore importantly, we gave members of our temple and the surrounding community an exciting, fun opportunity to come together in a playful way and get to know our synagogue a little better.?\\n\\nThe dreidel spin world record is subject to acceptance by the Guinness editors. The final count was supervised by Harry Platt, a councilman and former mayor of Voorhees, and Steven Burkett, a member of M\\u2019kor Shalom Synagogue in Cherry Hill and immediate past president of the regional council of the Union for Reform Judaism.\\n\\nFounded in Cherry Hill (then Delaware Township) in 1950, Temple Emanuel, a member of the Union for Reform Judaism, serves some 1,000 families from Camden, Gloucester and Burlington Counties. \\n\\n# # # #'