http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/ This blog contains summaries of events that Lawrence Hecht attends. Copyright 2006 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:39:30 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fun, fun, fun, Judaism is cool! What other religion tells you to get drunk, so drunk you can’t tell the difference between Haman (bad guy) and Mordechai (good guy)? In honor of Purim Nancella, Scott, and I went to American... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/03/a_heebster_puri.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/03/a_heebster_puri.html Event--Attended Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:39:30 -0500 I shouldn’t have been so excited to hear Jonathan Lethem speak just because he was recently awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, which is the “genius award” my father used to talk to me about. I had never read any of his... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/03/conversation_wi.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/03/conversation_wi.html Event--Attended Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:32:16 -0500 Do you have childhood memories of a pillow fight? Do you like to engage in public activities others steer away from? If so, then you should have been at the pillow fight in Union Square this Saturday. ">whatisee... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/02/pillow_fight.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/02/pillow_fight.html Event--Attended Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:55:55 -0500 Once a month a bunch of intellectual Jews gather in the Lower East Side. Surrounded by Soviet propaganda, the evening could have taken place 50 or 100 years ago, but this is New York City circa 2006. Novel Jews is... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/02/novel_jews_read.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2006/02/novel_jews_read.html Jewish Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:15:59 -0500 Yeah, it usually means Jewish American Princess, but that term didn't define the three black clad women on a Makor panel about “Debunking the Myth of the JAP”. According to Rhonda Lieberman, Isabel Rose, and Alana Newhouse, a JAP is... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/09/jap_jewish_amer.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/09/jap_jewish_amer.html Event--Attended Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:28:21 -0500 Starting off the fall lecture season, tonight's public forum was definitely an example of “deliberative democracy”, as the host Brian Lehrer put it. At least four people were removed from the audience for exercising their First Amendment right to scream,... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/09/subway_security.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/09/subway_security.html Event--Attended Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:14:33 -0500 The Fahmy family is so much fun! Their hospitality is top notch! Tarek Fahmy is one of my best friends. He invited me to his brother Ziad’s wedding to Kaila. Tarek’s father and mother, Adel and Ferial, reveled in the... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/vacation_pt_4_f.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/vacation_pt_4_f.html Lawrence-centric Mon, 16 May 2005 23:55:52 -0500 I know the origin of the saying, “it’s all Greek to me.” Or is the saying, “it looks “it sounds like Greek? The Greek alphabet is indecipherable at first glance. I took a 3-hour bus ride from the port of... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/vacation_pt_3_a.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/vacation_pt_3_a.html Lawrence-centric Mon, 16 May 2005 21:53:57 -0500 As expected, I took a ferry from Venice to Greece, but that is about the only part of my ferry ride that went as planned.... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/my_vacation_pt.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/my_vacation_pt.html Lawrence-centric Mon, 16 May 2005 21:02:05 -0500 Since I hadn't gone to Europe in years, this counts as an "event". I left work early and caught a flight out of JFK. The plane ride was painful. I had a middle seat and the lady sitting to my... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/vacation_pt_1_i.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/vacation_pt_1_i.html Lawrence-centric Mon, 16 May 2005 20:19:32 -0500 I attended a rather worthwhile networking event organized by mediabistro.com and BtoB Magazine. The venue, Light, was upscale and they even served some hors d'oeuvres. I am happy to report that mediabistro.com still organizes some of the best free networking... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/marketing_and_m.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/05/marketing_and_m.html Event--Attended Tue, 10 May 2005 23:38:32 -0500 The panel sponsored by National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. The panelists were Michael Azerrand of emusic.com, Amy Phillips, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, Knox Robinson of The Fader, Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone and Tracks, and... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/pop_criticism_a.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/pop_criticism_a.html Event--Attended Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:59:40 -0500 Heeb and Storahtelling teamed up to throw a great Purim party at Club Rare in New York's Meat Market. Several hundred Jews came to this masquerade party based on the Madonna them of "Esther Don't Preach". Overall, I bet there... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/purim_kablahbla.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/purim_kablahbla.html Event--Attended Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:57:53 -0500 Before the presentation, I challenged several of the people sitting around the table that Paul Wolfowitz might not be a bad choice for the World Bank presidency. I got a series of responses that reminded me that the New School... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/reforms_right_a.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/reforms_right_a.html Event--Attended Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:56:04 -0500 Sitting and listening to 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai, I couldn’t help but compare her to Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela. Lincoln’s speech at Cooper Union Great Hall in 1860 propelled him to the Republican Party’s presidential... http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/the_future_of_t.html http://WWW.lawrencehecht.info/archives/2005/03/the_future_of_t.html Event--Attended Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:35:17 -0500