A Massachusetts community appears to have broken the Guinness World Record for “world’s largest shofar ensemble.” Seven hundred and ninety-six people blew the shofar in Sunday’s Great Shofar Blowout in Swampscott, Mass., sponsored by the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation.
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