The Shabbat Project — Melbourne

The Melbourne Shabbat Project brought synagogues and Jewish organizations together for a citywide Shabbat program in October 2014. Its culminating Havdalah concert at Caulfield Park drew 10,612 people. Melbourne’s local Shabbat Project network, which organized the 2014 weekend culminating in a record-scale Havdalah concert. In Jewish World Records, The Shabbat Project — Melbourne is connected to the record “Largest Havdalah Concert,” based on the stored achievement of 10,612 Participants. In October 2014, 10,612 people gathered at Caulfield Park in Melbourne for the culminating Havdalah concert of the local Shabbat Project. Later independent reporting identifies the gathering as the world-record biggest Havdalah concert. JTA explicitly reports the Melbourne 2014 event at 10,612 participants and identifies it as the world record for the biggest Havdalah concert.