Sometimes might looks very mighty,' Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich said in Pearl River. 'And might looks very big and very strong, but light will win.'

With the Jewish Festival of Lights happening while Indiana University students are on break, the celebration was at the courthouse for the first time.

Five Chabad rabbis erected the first public menorah in Philadelphia in 1974. Now, 50 years later, there are roughly 15,000 giant menorahs lit annually in public squares from Washington, D.C.,