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Guinness World Records

Illustrative: People hold a certificate after breaking the Guinness World Record for most nationalities in an exhibition soccer match organized by FIFA, in Rabat, Morocco, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
December 18, 2025, 11:40 pm
US Jewish legal group accuses Guinness records of consumer fraud for hiding ban on Israel
Louis D. Brandeis Center says company’s claim of documenting world records ‘materially misrepresents’ reality as entries from Israel, Palestinian territories blocked for 2 years
By Luke Tress and Zev Stub
Illustrative: People hold a certificate after breaking the Guinness World Record for most nationalities in an exhibition soccer match organized by FIFA, in Rabat, Morocco, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
December 3, 2025, 4:59 pm
Guinness World Records says it stopped taking records from Israel after October 7
‘In current climate, we are not generally processing record applications from Palestinian Territories or Israel,’ it says; Israel holds strawberry, mezuzah, pi, many other records
By Zev Stub
Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" on sale at a Barnes & Noble retail store in Chicago on January 10, 2023. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)
January 14, 2023, 7:14 pm
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ sets record for single-day book sales
1.4 million English language copies of prince’s memoir sold on first day on shelves; Harry says he left out revelations about his family: ‘I don’t think they would ever forgive me’
By AFP
Tel Aviv's LGBTQ Center is hosting Winter Pride during Hanukkah 2022, featuring major performers and queer culture on central Tel Aviv stages (Courtesy Tel Aviv LGBTQ Center)
December 16, 2022, 8:43 am
Light up Hanukkah with wintry pride, a record-breaking LEGO menorah and more
There will be more than enough performances, exhibits, screenings and concerts to last 8 days, from the EclectiQueer festival to urban park appreciation, museum tours and beyond
By Jessica Steinberg
Dr. Howard Tucker holds the Guiness World Records certificate recognizing him as the oldest active physician in the United States. (Courtesy Tucker/ via JTA)
July 19, 2022, 3:43 am
At 100, a Jewish doctor in Cleveland is the world’s oldest practicing physician
Dr. Howard Tucker earned the Guinness World Record distinction last year; after passing US bar exam at age 67 and while he still teaches medical residents, he’s got big plans ahead
By Kristen Mott
Chahi Ariel and his record-breaking strawberry (Guinness World Records)
February 16, 2022, 12:54 pm
Israeli strawberry wins Guinness record as world’s largest
Organization confirms that 289-gram fruit grown at Ariel family plantation is the heaviest ever recorded
By Stuart Winer
Longtime radio journalist Walter Bingham sits in his office behind a wall filled with memorabilia, including a telegram regarding an award he won from the United Kingdom's King George VI. (Sam Sokol/ JTA)
May 2, 2021, 5:11 am
97-year-old British-Israeli earns Guinness record for world’s oldest journalist
Actor, model, and radio personality Walter Bingham was awarded the hoary title this month, but says he feels 50 years old on a bad day and doesn’t know the meaning of retirement
By Sam Sokol
A view of Moriah’s megillah spanning an entire basketball court. (Rahn Sas via JTA)
April 24, 2021, 8:14 am
Israeli artist sets Guinness World Record for longest megillah scroll
Avner Moriah’s version of the Purim story is 28.03 meters long, around the length of a basketball court
By Gabe Friedman
The $70,000 dreidel made of 18K yellow gold and encrusted with 220 round brilliant diamonds created by Estate Diamond Jewelry in New York City was named the world's most valuable dreidel by Guinness World Records. (Courtesy of Estate Diamond Jewelry via JTA)
December 25, 2019, 1:00 am
Guinness World Records certifies world’s most valuable dreidel
18K gold piece stands at 10.8 cm high and is valued at $70,000, with a 4.2-carat diamond on its tip and letters made of white gold encrusted with 222 round brilliant diamonds
By Marcy Oster
A kosher bakery in Sydney, Australia, breaks the Guinness world record for longest challah. (The Australian Jewish News/Facebook via JTA)
November 15, 2019, 3:28 am
Australian Jews bake world’s longest challah
Record-setting piece of bread is 32 feet long, made from 150 pounds of dough
By JTA
Justin Zackham and his family in the Bahamas. (Courtesy of the Anderson Group/via JTA)
May 11, 2019, 4:35 pm
This Jewish family is traveling to every single country
Hollywood screenwriter Justin Zackham literally coined the term ‘bucket list.’ Now he, his wife, and kids are 21 countries into their goal — and just may earn a world record title
By Arielle Kaplan
Isaak Hayik (left) presented with the Guinness World Record for the oldest living active pro soccer player by an unidentified Guinness official, April 5, 2019 (Facebook)
April 7, 2019, 12:45 pm
Israeli goalie recognized as world’s oldest pro soccer player
Maccabi Or Yehuda’s Isaak Hayik, 73, sets new Guinness World Record
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of a world-record breaking Israeli flag made out of cookies on the floor of the Heritage Hall in Atlanta’s Congregation Beth Jacob, June 3, 2018. (YouTube)
June 5, 2018, 6:41 pm
Israeli flag made of cookies in Atlanta breaks Guinness record
Volunteers lay out 117,000 edible baked treats over 3,224 square feet to celebrate 70 years of Israel’s independence
By JTA
View of construction of a 36-meter high lego tower, intending to break the Guinness World Record. December 27, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
December 27, 2017, 4:52 pm
Tel Aviv toys with world record via 118-foot Lego tower
Half a million pieces used for project, launched in memory of an 8-year-old who died of cancer
By AFP
Over 500 students from Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus, New Jersey, broke the world record for the largest human menorah on December 13, 2017. (Screenshot: JTA via NorthJersey.com)
December 14, 2017, 3:48 am
New Jersey students break world record for largest human menorah
Formation certified by Guinness World Records sees 500 students stand in the shape of a Hanukkah candelabra to mark start of the Jewish holiday
By JTA
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