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Arden Dier, Newser staff 9:30 a.m. EDT July 16, 2015

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple accused of espionage and selling secrets of the atomic bomb to Russia, were executed in 1953 for what was hailed the “crime of the century.” Now, over 60 years... Read More

By Eric Tucker Associated Press  July 16, 2015

The federal government on Wednesday unsealed decades-old grand jury testimony from the brother of Ethel Rosenberg, who along with her husband, Julius, was put to death in 1953 in a sensational Cold... Read More

Newly unsealed testimony from Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass, minimizes her role in the spying operations of her husband, Julius Rosenberg, furthering public incredulity about her actual... Read More

More than six decades later, the prosecution of Ethel Rosenberg remains one of America’s most controversial criminal cases: Her conviction — and eventual execution — for joining in her husband Julius... Read More

2015 is the RFC’s 25th anniversary year. This extraordinary project—which only exists because of the generosity of tens of thousands of concerned people—has grown from funding summer camp for two... Read More

[guest post by RFC Communications Director, Amber Black]Some of the Rosenberg Fund for Children’s earliest grantees were children whose parents faced targeting because they were labor organizers.... Read More

(Part 2 of the The RFC at 25 and Ethel Rosenberg at 100 series) The first blog in this series explored the public response to the press conference my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg, held in her kitchen... Read More

Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed as "atomic spies" in 1953 during the height of the anti-communist witch hunt. Meeropol is founder of the Rosenberg... Read More

This fall the RFC awarded 64 grants totaling $169,515 for 134 children from 72 families. Seven are new awards, of which two are for Targeted Activist Youth (TAY); and 57 are renewals, including one... Read More

By Robert Meeropol, Founder I retired as executive director 18 months ago, but there’s one last encore before my RFC performance is done. I am happy to announce that we have begun a four-year effort... Read More

2015 is shaping up to be a big year for the Rosenberg Fund for Children. This fall marks both our 25th anniversary and what would have been my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg’s, 100th birthday. We’re... Read More

View a moving video about the event, featuring interviews with participants, at the bottom of this article. For four days in August, in western Massachusetts, members of the RFC community... Read More

I’ve always been an avid reader, especially of literary fiction. While I enjoy escaping into a fun novel, most of my favorite books are anything but frivolous reads. Instead, they tend to fall into... Read More

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were fighting for their lives at the height of the McCarthy-era Red Scare, many high profile people were among the tens of thousands of concerned individuals worldwide... Read More

Posted: Nov 11, 2014 11:48 PM EST Updated: Nov 12, 2014 12:52 AM ESTBy Ben Nandy, Reporter