The word hate crossed out

Thirty years may not seem that long to some. For others, 1992 was a lifetime ago. Either way, it’s easy to see parallels between then and now in our Oct. 2, 1992 issue — 30 years ago this week.

In 2022 we’re thinking about midterm elections, but in 1992, a presidential election just a month away. Challenger Bill Clinton was running for the Democrats against incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush (spoiler alert: he won).

“Monday marks the last day Californians can register to vote before the Nov. 3 election,” we wrote. While only 25 percent of Jews nationally were registered to vote, the Californian Jewish community could be proud of a much more satisfactory number.

“A whopping 97 percent of affiliated Jews from San Francisco, Marin and Napa counties and the Peninsula who voted during the last three years are probably still registered to vote,” wrote Garth Wolkoff, a staff writer.

Because of that, a major push to get Jews to register (including a “phone-a-thon”) seems to have fizzled, a victim of the community’s own success in getting Jewish people to be politically engaged.

“’We’re finding that most of the people we run into are registered to vote,’ said Mauri Schwartz, who chairs the Jewish mobilization effort for Clinton-Gore in San Francisco and Marin.

“‘I don’t think there are too many unregistered Jews in the Bay Area,’ agreed John Sidline, the Bush-Quayle campaign’s liaison to California Jews.”

Later in the paper, we printed a letter to the editor responding to earlier coverage of the Republican National Convention (“GOP woos Jews with party plank backing Israel”), in which Bush’s party said a vote for him was a vote for the security of Israel.

“Much was said in the Aug. 21 Bulletin of the enthusiasm of certain Jewish Republicans for Bush’s pro-lsrael promises,” a reader wrote to say. “Much less was said about the other, larger face of the Republicans’ platform: anti-intellectualism, intolerance, continued support for the unhealthy fantasy of ‘trickle-down economics,’ and the rabid agenda of Christian fundamentalism.”

We’re finding that most of the people we run into are registered to vote.

Harvey Edber of Sacramento continued in his letter to say that the question wasn’t really whether the Republican party was “good for the Jews,” but to remember that the United States had defense and security reasons for being close allies with Israel, a reality that would remain under a Democratic administration.

“It’s time for American Jews to remember what many American anti-Semites forget — namely, that what’s good for Jews is generally what’s good for the self-interests of the United States,” he wrote.

Hate crimes, and legislation about them, have been a major topic in this publication lately. In 1992, we wrote about a new bill waiting to be signed by Gov. Pete Wilson that would address what we referred to as “hate crimes” (not all incidents of hate are crimes) in schools, from physical harassment to threats.

“Recent statewide reports suggest schoolyard hate violence and intimidation is increasing rapidly; the problem is, no one knows exactly how rapidly,” we wrote. “Not a Jewish state senator or Jewish communal watchdog agencies or, for that matter, state education experts are able to provide any concrete data on the phenomena.”

The aim of the bill was primarily to start recording this data, so educators would know if there was a problem, said Fred Persily, the Jewish director of a San Francisco civil rights organization called Intergroup Clearinghouse.

“The anger and frustration that people have in a time of economic stress is usually directed at the most convenient target,” he said. “And for thousands, or at least hundreds of years, Jews have been one of those targets.”

Also on the subject of hate, on Page 44, we ran an advertisement that appeared not just in our paper but also on billboards around Los Angeles, sponsored by the American Joint Committee.

The word hate, crossed out, was accompanied by the words “Let’s make this the sign of the times.”

“The campaign was prompted by three recent outbreaks of hate incidents, including the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots,” we explained. Bumper stickers were being planned for the near future.

Иногда нужно закрыть дверь, чтобы открыть окно

Я видел фотографию, ты выглядела радостной

У меня зеленые глаза, я ем свои овощи

Мне нужно вытащить ее из картины

Она действительно портит мне настроение

Она не развита так, как мы

Как по волшебству, как по волшебству, как по волшебству, исчезла

Новая волшебная, новая волшебная, новая волшебная палочка

Как по волшебству, как по волшебству, как по волшебству, исчезла

Новая волшебная (Ву), новая волшебная, новая волшебная палочка

Мой брат сказал, что я нахожусь в спектре

Не называй меня эгоистом, я ненавижу делиться

Эти 60 на 40 не работают

Мне нужна сотня твоего времени, ты моя

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас (Не уходи)

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас (Не уходи)

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас (Не уходи)

(Как по волшебству, как по волшебству, как по волшебству, исчезла)

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас (Я могу заставить ее уйти)

(Новая волшебная, новая волшебная, новая волшебная палочка)

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас (Не уходи)

(Как по волшебству, как по волшебству, как по волшебству, исчезла)

Пожалуйста, не оставляй меня сейчас

(Новая волшебная, новая волшебная, новая волшебная палочка)

Я хочу, чтобы меня нашли, пассажиром в твоей машине (Не уходи)

Ты хочешь быть злой, смешанные сигналы, не паркуйся (Я могу заставить ее уйти)

Она скоро умрет, у меня только что появилась волшебная палочка (Не уходи)

Мы наконец-то можем быть вместе

Ты бросаешь кости, выбиваешь семерку, уверена, что ты права

Удача новичка, ты у меня не первая, кому какое дело?

Твой другой испарился, мы празднуем

Ты под присягой, теперь выбирай сторону, и если ты этого не сделаешь

(Беги, беги, беги, беги)

Я выберу вас обоих

(Беги, беги, беги, беги)

Это не шутка, написала она

Эйо, взгляни в зеркало, последствия так ясны

Я живу без страха, за исключением идеи

Что однажды тебя здесь не будет

Я не буду приносить мяч

Глаза зеленые, я ем свои овощи

Это не имеет никакого отношения к той широте

Но если бы это произошло, гарантирую, что она ушла бы, хорошо

У меня есть план, как попасть в загон

Если ты не можешь понять, я ястреб в спортзале

Не сводя глаз с приза, я чувствую тяжесть на груди

Что мне нужно слезть, или я не буду с ними разговаривать

Не может быть на картинке, если у нее нет рамки

Я дам миру знать, потому что у меня нет стыда

Взорву все это место, потому что я не–

Хочу делиться фамилиями, я хочу быть твоим номером один

Не тот, другой, держу его на низком уровне

Я в здравом уме, держу его на высоте

Дженис Джаплин выплескивает чувства, и теперь я здесь, вытираю их

Четверо на полу, собирай свои сумки, мы идем в магазин

Хватаю наши припасы, маски не нужны, врываюсь в дверь

Выполняю свою работу, как на пенсии, я признаю, что ты выглядишь обеспокоенной

Новая волшебная палочка

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Michael Kors, a designer often cited as the beating heart of New York’s fashion scene, enticed guests out to Brooklyn on Wednesday morning for his spring/summer 2020 collection.

A choir of young New Yorkers chimed in with the opening bars of Don McLean’s American Pie as models including Adesuwa Aighewi, Mica Argañaraz, Kaia Gerber and the Hadids walked wearing an anthemic collection of navy knitwear and red sweetheart-necklined dresses embellished with golden stars, white double-breasted blazers with shiny gold buttons and boxy blue and white striped bags and shirts.

Guests, including the Roma star Yalitza Aparicio, the first indigenous person to appear on the cover of Vogue Mexico, filled the cavernous space, empty apart from benches and potted trees.

This latest collection started with Kors’s first trip to Ellis Island, he explained at a press preview the day before. His great-grandmother had though. She arrived there aged 14, with $10 and a spot in steerage, and started a new life, first on the Lower East Side, and then in Brooklyn – hence the show’s location. The clothes nodded to her journey via uncomplicated references to the nautical: sailors hats, anchors and deck shoes. In one particularly seaworthy ensemble, a jumper was emblazoned with the word Hate crossed out.

It was this discovery of his family heritage that catalysed thoughts of New York, its “newness, revival and optimism”, which manifested in the collection. Kors described it as probably the most patriotic he’s ever done. The show notes began with two words: American pie, an idea baked into the clothes via frocks decorated with crystals made to look like glistening cherries and lemons, served up alongside gingham bralets, blazers and wicker handbags that spoke of afternoon picnics in the Hamptons.

Patriotic is an interesting word in these charged times. Kors is known to be a Hillary Clinton supporter, and described dressing Michele Obama as one of the proudest moments of his life, but he is tight-lipped on the subject of Melania Trump wearing his clothes.

The show went hard on an undemanding, wholesome vision of America, with Kors unafraid to double down on a theme. The choir moved from McLean to Simon and Garfunkel’s America and Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land.

Preppyness, via blazers, regatta jackets and Argyle-knit jumpers, was married with punk, via leather, tartans and silver studs on handbags and creeper-style shoes. Kors described the clash as New England versus the Lower East side. Uptown/downtown America, he says, “is the two sides of the same coin, mixed”. There was a focus on sportswear, an area of fashion, Kors says, the US can claim as its own.

The designer sees the collection’s tailored jackets and trousers as being in line with the shift away from binaries in gender with its role in fashion becoming, in his eyes, obsolete. “Is it men’s, is it women’s? Truly,” he says, “it doesn’t matter”. He looks to “rule-breakers”, from Katherine Hepburn to David Bowie. “Is gender so specific? No – Katherine Hepburn knew that.”

Kors’ designs are known for being popular with shiny-haired Upper East Siders, but his is also an accessible aesthetic that, when translated into relatively affordable, but still luxury, handbags, has garnered him mass market appeal. The company currently has over 400 stores in 89 countries.