The Jew and Aviation By Zelda F. Popkin ORE than thirty years passed between the day when Otto Lilienthal lay crushed under his twisted bird wings in a little village near Berlin, and the morning when Charles Levine, his co-religionist, cam…

418 B'NAI B'RITH MAGAZINE into space from the crest of a hill, floated for a few minutes and then came to the ground. He set to work to make improvements upon his apparatus, adding another pair of planes to achieve a curve which might recei…

In the Public Eye Felix M. Warburg Felix M. Warburg ^THOUSANDS may come and go between Europe and America unnoticed, but the return of Felix M. Warburg to New York last month from a half year's tour of the world was the occasion for many ga…

News in Views Photo by Hamburg-American Line FELIX M. WARBURG and his party during their trip abroad visited the famous Buddhist temple at Rangoon, Burma, where they honored the native custom by entering the shrine with hats on and shoes of…

Photo by International Newsreel EMPRESS Zauditu of Abyssinia (above left), and her nephew Ras Tafari (right) proudly boast of being descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Their subjects claim to have Jewish blood. A LFRED M. CO…

One'Half of Wider Scope Quota is Raised EN great months in the new ef- (fflmSd fort of American Jewry were j||§|fj§5 completed on July 1st. They ral^Sf culminated in the announcejjlpftL ment on that date that very c^vgrl near f1,000,000 had…

* The B'nai BVith Wider Scope Committee Announces —that one-half of the quota in its $2,000,000 campaign has been raised. Incomplete returns from four districts indicate that $1,000,000 Has Been Pledged Districts No. IV, V and VII are gathe…

The Jews and Relativity F ALL the great revolutions in thought that have been thrust upon an unwilling world in the last few centuries, that of relativity seems to have had the most farreaching effect in intellectual circles. Whatever might…

THE JEWS AND RELATIVITY 425 discovery was first given by Minkowski ... to him we are indebted for the idea of a four dimensional world geometry, on which we based our arguments from the outset." Weyl himself, who ranks as the leading author…

Versatile Pen By Victor Emanuel Reichert A[Review of "I, The Jew/' by Maurice Samuel, (Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1927) R. MAURICE SAMUEL startled the world a few years ago by shouting a little harshly "You Gentiles" while pointing …

He remembers the Prophets of Israel. "You will understand why here," he writes, speaking of these mountains of Judae, "the greatest word of faith was uttered, and the last word of desperate and contemptuous disbelief, the flame-white faith …

The Jew at Home in Mexico HE slow, measured pad of hoofs penetrates the sleep of a man huddled against the front of his mud hut. It seems miraculous that an inert portion of the yellow wall has come to life. From beneath the drooping sombre…

Jacob Plessner An Interpreter of Character in Bronze By Israel Auerbach E JEWS are reproached with having no love for nature, with being too spiritual, too intellectual. And yet there is within us a deep longing for "things," and a passiona…

430 B'NAI B'RITH MAGAZINE The Jews and Relativity (Continued from page 425) Plessner is a permanent guest at the House. In his sculptured portraits, Plessner is at his best. Sculptures of his father, of Dr. Arthur Kahn, another prominent Be…

Wayfaring in Provence (Part II) By Israel Cohen Marseilles HE port of Marseilles had always appeared to me to be a place of transit through which one rushed to catch a ship for some far-off land, rather than a city which one might enjoy for…

432 B'NAI B'RITH MAGAZINE mantilla over their heads, threw out their hands in an imaginary caress, and kissed the tips of their fingers. The assistant cantor blew the Shofar with ease and vigour, and also with unusual rapidity, which was du…

News of the Lodges A Message from Hon. Adolf Kraus Editor's Note: The B'nai B'rith Magazine in former issues recorded some of the distinctions conferred on Hon. Adolf Kraus, former president of the Order, and his good wife, on their golden …

434 NEWS OF THE LODGES N. M. Jacobs f\N JULY 10th, N. M. Jacobs, a member of David Lubin Lodge, Sacramento, Calif., came to the one hundredth year of his life. He is believed to be the oldest living member of the Order. Mr. Jacobs joined th…

FOOT HEALTH for every member of the family STYLE for her Smart, graceful and colorful are the new Cantilever models for this season. Their high, snug arches support the foot and lend it aristocratic distinction. The rounded toes are modish …

Across the Seas ODGES throughout England and Ireland participated in the arrangements to accord a fitting welcome to Alfred M. Cohen, President of the Constitution Grand Lodge, upon his visit to London the week-end of June 17th. Mr. Cohen i…