News & Events

CBS National News September 15, 2008 Questions from the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans ever to be executed for espionage in peacetime, may finally be answered. Russ Mitchell... Read More

Minnesota Public Radio (NPR member station) October 6, 2008

By Larry ParnassDaily Hampshire Gazette September 23, 2008 To some, an old man's admission this month about Soviet-era spying closes the book on one of the most divisive cases in American legal... Read More

By Elizabeth Corridan ABC 40 (WGGB TV, Springfield, MA) July 24, 2008 Robert Meeropol reacts to the July 2008 precedent-setting legal decision to release the previously-secret transcipt of testimony... Read More

By Jeff GammageInquirer Staff Writer September 12, 2008 The transcript shows that Ethel Rosenberg was willing to tell the grand jury that she was 34 years old and that she lived at 10 Monroe St. in... Read More

BBC World Service Interviews Robert Meeropol about the Rosenberg Fund for Children:

The Essential Lessons of the Rosenberg Case By Michael and Robert Meeropol October 5, 2008 We are the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. We were young children -- 10 and 6 years old, respectively... Read More

While we wish we could share all the details behind our grants with our supporters, our first priority is to protect the privacy of our grantees. However two RFC families have decided to share their... Read More

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Twenty years ago, an unfulfilled corporate lawyer with a remarkable personal history sat up in bed and realized what he wanted to do with his life: start an organization to honor his parents’ legacy... Read More

For the past year we’ve been asking supporters on our email list how best to communicate with you. Not surprisingly many of you have opted to receive our newsletter and fundraising appeals via email... Read More

Thanks to our community’s response to our fundraising campaigns, this spring we were able to award 74 grants totaling $175,906; two are new awards and 72 are renewals. Because of our supporters’... Read More

Light at the End of the Tunnel? We live in a dangerous time. An arrogant and violent President and his gang have placed themselves above the law. They won’t stand for dissenters getting in the way... Read More

Last August, the RFC held its sixth Gathering at a progressive summer camp in rural western Massachusetts. 41 parents and their school-aged children from across the country joined three peer leaders... Read More

Outrage and activism around the Rosenberg case spread across the globe during the fight to save their lives in the early 1950’s. France was perhaps the nation where the movement was the strongest,... Read More

In my June 19th report I wrote, “On this 55th anniversary of my parents’ execution, [please] make a special donation not only to help the children the RFC supports today, but also to commemorate... Read More

This past spring, a unique community partnership generated a substantial donation earmarked for the RFC’s 2008 Family Gathering (click here to learn more about RFC Gatherings).

This spring the RFC made 81 grants totaling $200,000; 7 are new awards and 74 are renewals. Thanks to our supporters’ generosity, in 2008 the RFC expects to award more than $400,000 for the third... Read More