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Widener Library at Harvard University. Photo: Joseph Williams. Husam Zomlot has tried to explain away a comment denying the Holocaust, rationalized the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s policy of paying families of terrorists, and minimized rocket fire from Gaza that targets Israeli civilians. But to two Harvard University centers, Zomlot is the right person to discuss “The United States and Palestine: Defining Requirements for Change” on Thursday afternoon. Zomlot leads the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom, and previously served in a similar capacity in the United States. An exampl...

More than 30 Harvard workers and supporters called for contracted employees idled by the pandemic to receive paid leave in the spring during a rally in Harvard Yard Thursday. 32BJ Service Employees International Union, the union representing approximately 1,000 Harvard custodians and security guards, and Local 26, the local chapter of UNITE HERE that represents Harvard dining workers, organized the rally. The rally occurred one day before some contracted workers at the University will become ineligible to receive emergency pay if their jobs are suspended due to the pandemic, while idled worke...

Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. As languages have lives of their own, with arcs that dwarf the lifespans of their speakers, it feels fitting for Rutgers professor Jeffrey Shandler to give Yiddish the biographer’s treatment. In truth, “Yiddish: Biography of a Language” does not trace the course of its subject in the linear manner we expect in a biography. But it anthropomorphizes the language just enough to allow for a richly illustrated profile, with chapters such as “Residence,” “Gender,” “Appearance,” “Personality�...

Op-Ed: I thought I'd escaped Germany's dark history. The Capitol attack reminded me I was wrong Martin Puchner © Provided by The LA Times Capitol Police hold insurrectionists at gunpoint Wednesday near the House chamber inside the Capitol. (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press) When I came to America a quarter of a century ago, I was leaving behind history’s No. 1 villain. True, Germany had grappled with its crimes, belatedly, in the 1980s, by teaching the horrors of the Third Reich in high schools. But the burden of the past lingered on, and I was glad to escape from it. At ...