Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora ten, 20 and 40 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO The NBC-TV production ■ \ Holocaust aired this month. NBC received 750 phone calls after Sunday's showing of the first of the four-part series. A total of 368 people complained that the show was "Zionist propaganda." In commemoration of the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birthday, April 20, "birthday cards" were distributed in Detroit. The Jewish News received one which stated "Happy Holocaust." 20 YEARS AGO The Polish Communist Party continued to blame Jews for organizing street riots and student demonstrations in Warsaw. Michigan State University appointed recent University of Florida graduate, Edith Stern, 15, to its faculty. The teenager was acclaimed a mathematical genius. 40 YEARS AGO The British government in Palestine suspended the issuance of all visas to and from Palestine. Detroit Jews raised $3,750,000 toward the Allied Jewish Campaign's Destiny Campaign goal of $6,200,000. Stamps Mark Israel's 40th Israel has announced three stamp issues which will be available as the Jewish state celebrates its 40th anniversary. One of the issues depicts Anne Frank, the courageous young girl who with her family was captured by the Nazis and whose diary has lived on in book, play, movie and TV forms. The design of the stamp, by A. Vanooijen, is based on copyrighted photographs used by permission. Another stamp issue is based on the theme of Israeli architecture. Titled "Buildings in Modern Jerusalem," the new issue depicts the Jewish Agency complex, the Generali Building, the Israel Museum, the YMCA, the Hebrew University Synagogue at Givat Ram, the Jerusalem Theater, the new project at Gilo and the Bank Leumi Building in the Rehavia quarter of Jerusalem. The stamps were designed by A. Berg. A third series of stamps depicts the emblems of the Israel military. The Yom Hazikaron — Israel Remembrance Day — stamps are affixed to a special envelope that the Ministry of Defense brings out each year. This envelope is used for a letter that the minister of defense sends to all war-bereaved families. Collectors who would like more information should write the Israel Stamp Agency in North America, One Unicover Center, Cheyenne, Wyo. 82008-0006, or call toll free, 1-800-443-4225. Next Month Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, will be the focus of next month's L'Chayim. There will be special recipes, games and projects for the entire family. And with our popular regular features, such as Du Redst Yiddish? 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A Daily Life In Israel Continued from Page 39 tell you to wear a hat or else you will get a sun stroke; or sit on a bus going from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and have the passinger sitting next to you start a friendly talk with you, in the process of which you will discover that you are actually related, that you "studied" in the same kindergarten, were in the same army unit, have common friends, or lived in the same house when you were young children? Where could you have people who are complete strangers share with you their financial, material or family problems, seek advice, and then offer to help you with yours? Not in many other places will you find people, offices, banks, business stop all activities at noon to go home to take the sacred "afternoon nap," which is a known well-established Israeli institution. During these "siesta" hours children are forbidden to play outside and you will be considered extremely rude to call on the telephone or ring the doorbell. You can, however, ring anybody's doorbell at almost any other time, uninvited and without prior notice, and be very warmly received! Where else will you have a whole bus full of people stop talking and get silence without notice when the driver turns on the radio for the news? Sadly, but realistically, not in many places do you find guards at the entrance to every supermarket, every public place, every movie theater checking your purse for hidden weapons, mothers taking turns to guard the entrance to their children's nursery schools and kindergartens, and students and teachers guarding their schools around the clock, with all accepting it as part of life. Last, but not least, where else but in Israel can you really feel at home, even if this is your first visit, really wanted, really belonging in some strange inexplicable way?