Community hosts candlelight vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The community hosts candlelight vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

County joins the nation in mourning the loss of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg.

Tonight dozens of community members honored her legacy with a candlelight vigil.

News 18's micah upshaw shows us what she meant to many.

:13 :48 m: ruth bader ginsburg served as a united states supreme court justice since 1993.

On friday, september 18 she died from complication caused from cancer.

C: i felt inclined to give people the opportunity to mourn with me and with each other.

M: community member claire (chew-luh) tchoula organized this candlelight vigil.

While those in attendance may not have known ginsburg personally, they still felt her impact.

C: learning about her strength on television and her resolve consistently and tangibly was really inspiring as a female who makes a lot of those same decisions.

M: ginsburg was born of jewish heritage.

Her death falling just before a jewish holiday hits even harder for their community.

R: ruth bader ginsburg died right around sunset of what is the jewish new year rosh hashanah.

M: rabbi michael harvey says her death is both devastating and highly symbolic.

R: according to jewish tradition, if you die on the sunset of rosh hashanah, it means that you are highly, highly, highly righteous, you are what we call "tzadik" someone who is a righteous person.

M: the event at the sonya margerum fountain in west lafayette then members walked over the pedestrian's bridge to the courthouse.

C: people really want to express honor for her and her legacy and hope that with demonstrations like this that there is hope for the future.

M: reporting in tippecanoe county, micah upshaw.

News 18.

The vigil started at 7:45 and ended at 9:45.

It brought out people of all ages to come together to honor justice ginsburg.

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