News & Events

We’re eagerly anticipating St. Martin’s Press’s June publication of New York Times best-selling author, Anne Sebba’s, newest book, Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy. RFC Founder Robert Meeropol... Read More

By Robert Meeropol, RFC Founder It’s been over seven years since I retired as RFC Executive Director. Now I’m getting used to being a senior citizen.  Like many aging people, especially in this... Read More

COVID-19 has drastically changed the way we connect with each other, but building community remains a high priority for the RFC. While we may be unable to host Gatherings and other in-person events... Read More

The end of 2020 saw new faces joining the RFC as we welcomed Tori Montemurro and Rachel Harb to the staff.

By Jennifer Meeropol, RFC Executive Director

In a year of overwhelming need marked by a global pandemic, economic hardship and escalated targeting of progressive activists, the RFC responded by awarding a record-breaking $230,000+ during our... Read More

Guest blog by RFC Founder Robert Meeropol Six years ago I posted a blog on the RFC website entitled “Strange Convergence” (available here). In it I compared details of the life of my mother, Ethel... Read More

The Reminder By Angelica J. Core January 12, 2021 EASTHAMPTON – In a time of great need, the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) awarded a record-breaking $230,000 in awards in fall 2020 for programs... Read More

This has felt like the longest, most monumental election of my lifetime. While I am enormously grateful that Trump was defeated, the level of support for him and his hateful, racist, homophobic,... Read More

NEW GRANTS

Ivy Meeropol’s documentary, “Bully. Coward.

While we wish we it would have been possible to gather safely with members of our community to celebrate the RFC's 30th anniversary, we were thrilled to be able to offer a virtual program to mark... Read More

Unprecedented. Extraordinary. Global Crisis. Pandemic. How quickly these terms have become clichés as we all try to capture the current moment. And yet, despite how overused they already are, they... Read More

“Things have been so insane and hectic here,” a parent wrote to us recently. Maybe you can relate.

My wife’s fourth novel, Her Sister’s Tattoo, was published in April. It’s the story of Esther and Rosa, whose arrests during an anti-Vietnam War protest tear the sisters apart. It’s fiction, but it... Read More

While we wish we could have safely gathered together to celebrate the RFC's 30th anniversary in 2020, we were thrilled to be able to offer a virtual program to mark this milestone. The five videos... Read More

The Gist: Meeropol’s interviewees reserve their choicest commentary for Roy Cohn: “He was a lawless madman.” “The personification of evil.” “Without conscience.” “Like Dracula coming out of his box... Read More

Kids wondering if their father will go to prison this summer for participating in a nonviolent demonstration.