Temple Solel Paradise Valley Arizona

Rabbi Linder 07/19 Fifty years ago, after the 230,000-mile voyage, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the Moon. The first time in the history of humanity. If you’re over 55, you likely recall exactly where you were on that day. I was a 12-year-old boy at Camp Kennebec - a secular, Jewish boys camp in the north woods of Maine. Just this past Wednesday, I called my life-long friend and brother, Stanley Weil. We reminisced about gathering in the camp’s mess hall in the middle of that July afternoon, 1969; some 200 campers and counselors, eyes affixed on a small, staticky black and white Zenith television set. Little did we know that we were amongst the world’s largest viewing audience to this day; some 650 million people, a quarter of the Earth’s population, holding our collective breath; witnessing the successful landing; hearing astronaut Neil Armstrong report, “Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed;” then, some hours later, Armstrong stepped out of the lunar-module, down the ladder, the first hum