Physics Students Rafi Holzer and Mark Stauber Generate Local Headlines with Wind-Powered Menorah Two Yeshiva College students, Rafi Holzer and Mark Stauber, came up with an innovative way of combining their interests in physics and Judaism when they invented a wind-powered menorah for the festival of Hanukkah. And now the menorah is capturing local headlines. Noticing the wind tunnel along Amsterdam Avenue, Holzer and Stauber decided to create a turbine that captures the wind energy and charges a battery connected to the lights on the menorah. Their menorah is four feet wide by four feet tall, and uses compact fluorescent bulbs, which are more energy-efficient than incandescent bulbs. “In the miracle of the menorah, they got back to the temple and there was only enough oil for one night, but they made it last eight days,” Stauber is quoted as saying in an article in the New York Times. “I see an analogy with the world’s fight for sustainable energy, to take that and make it last as long as we’re going to need it.” Read the full New York Times article here. Watch the video segment read the accompanying NBC article here.