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Join Us For Our "Artists as Activists" 25th Anniversary Celebration
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The RFC grew from an idea that led to our first grants for $800 to help two kids go to summer camp, into an organization that 25 years later has a devoted community behind it and has awarded over $5.… Read More
My Mother at 100
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By Robert Meeropol
September 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of my mother, Ethel Rosenberg’s, birth.
At the height of the McCarthy period this woman, with two young children, was executed along with… Read More
The RFC is 25!
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Alot has happened in the past 25 years, in the life of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, and in the lives of the children and activist youth we aid. The kids we funded in our early years are… Read More
Gathering to Combat Activist Families' Isolation
Blog Post
Just about a year ago, we were starting our Family Gathering. Board members and staff shuttled attendees from the airport to the venue, others stocked up on snacks for late night conversations, and… Read More
Did the Rosenberg Prosecutors Suborn Perjury?
Press Coverage
Bennett L. GershmanProfessor of Law, Pace
Jewish-American woman executed for spying may have been innocent
Press Coverage
July 17, 2015
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Grand Jury Testimony In Cold War-Era Rosenberg Case Released
Press Coverage
July 15, 2015 7:20 PM ETKrishnadev Calamur
'Soviet spy' Ethel Rosenberg may have been innocent
Press Coverage
Arden Dier, Newser staff 9:30 a.m. EDT July 16, 2015
Ethel Rosenberg Innocent? Did She Take Her Brother’s Seat In The Executioner’s Chair?
Press Coverage
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
Testimony casts doubts on Rosenbergs’ accuser: Grand jury record released from ‘50s-era spy case
Press Coverage
By Eric Tucker Associated Press
July 16, 2015
Crucial Testimony Unsealed in Rosenberg Spy Case
Press Coverage
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
Unsealed 1950 testimony minimizes Ethel Rosenberg's spying role
Press Coverage
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
Secret Grand Jury Testimony From Ethel Rosenberg’s Brother Is Released
Press Coverage
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
Celebrate the RFC at 25 & Artists as Activists on Oct 17!
Blog Post
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
RFC Sponsors Workers Unite! Film Festival in NYC in May
Blog Post
[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
Ethel at 100 (part 2): Communists in the Kitchen
Blog Post
(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
"Thank you for making it possible for our family to attend the Children of Resistance commemoration. We are proud to be part of the RFC's 'beloved community'. Thanks again for your support, material and spiritual." -RFC Beneficiary Family