Jennifer Meeropol is the granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and the daughter of RFC Founder, Robert Meeropol. Jenn became the Executive Director of the RFC on September 1, 2013. Prior posts on this page were written by Robert (unless otherwise noted), and represent his opinions, which are not necessarily shared by the RFC.Two weeks ago, just before I left for vacation, I received a book in the mail with the following inscription: “The author’s profits from this book will be given to the Rosenberg Fund for Children.”
The book, entitled, This American Family: Growing up as a Red Diaper Baby, is a memoir of the childhood of author Chris Christie. I read it last week, while taking a break from New England’s snow and cold in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Luisa (a pseudonym) has been receiving Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) support since she was 15 years old. She’s now a student at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the largest university in the Caribbean and the premier Spanish-speaking institution of higher learning under the control of the United States.
Is it that lately activists are more under siege? Maybe I think so because I hear so many horror stories at the RFC. Yesterday I read about the Muslim students at UC Irvine in California being charged with criminal offenses because they heckled a speech on their campus given by the Israeli Ambassador.
Over the last four decades, I have traveled widely, speaking about reopening the Rosenberg case and about the RFC. Whenever possible my wife Elli has accompanied me; many of you have met her. Now we are turning the tables.
I recently received two very moving communications. The first was a letter from one of our younger donors and the second was an email about one of our oldest.
Bea, who faithfully supported the RFC since she first learned of our existence in the early 1990’s, passed away earlier this month at the age of 91. Her son emailed us a summary of her life, portions of which I quote below: