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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave US Court House after being found guilty of by jury of spying for the Soviet Union, 1951. (Roger Higgins for the New York World-Telegram and the Sun/Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
September 10, 2024, 9:03 pm
Unsealed memo from 1950 says Ethel Rosenberg ‘did not engage’ in atomic espionage
While historians have long agreed husband Julius was Soviet spy, they have been divided over whether Ethel took part in activities; both were executed by US in 1953
By Eric Tucker
Judge Irving Kaufman (Kaufman Family Photo Collection)
May 26, 2024, 4:54 pm
Biography tries to move judge out from under shadow of controversial Rosenberg spy case
Irving R. Kaufman, remembered primarily for sending couple to electric chair, shifted over time from being almost unquestioningly pro-government to an upholder of individuals’ rights
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ethel Rosenberg smiles and waves as she leaves New York's Women's detention home in an automobile for the death house in Sing Sing Prison April 11, 1951. The 35-year-old Mrs. Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, 32, were sentenced to die for furnishing wartime atom secrets to a soviet spy ring. (AP Photo/Murray Becker)
July 23, 2021, 8:39 pm
Was the Rosenberg trial America’s Dreyfus affair?
British author Anne Sebba’s new biography of Ethel Rosenberg is a gripping and tragic tale of a complex case involving family betrayal, misogyny, and antisemitism
By Robert Philpot
This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, 10 feet deep at the vent and the sand within the crater had been burned and boiled into a highly radioactive, jade-green, glassy crust. (AP Photo)
December 2, 2019, 8:19 pm
Historians uncover fourth Soviet spy who stole US atomic secrets in WWII
After seven decades, identity of mole finally revealed in a tangled story of cat-and-mouse espionage involving Jewish agents and double-agents working for the Communists and FBI
By Rich Tenorio
Robert Meeropol and Rabbi Efraim Mintz dance at a conference of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. (Mendy Moskowitz/Rohr Jewish Learning Institute via JTA)
August 3, 2018, 11:04 pm
Son of executed Rosenbergs celebrates belated bar mitzvah
Robert Meeropol, who was adopted after his parents were put to death for being Soviet spies, celebrates Jewish coming-of-age ritual at age 71
By JTA
Prof. Jonathan Sarna in an interview following a lecture hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America at Jerusalem's Beit Avichai, on May 28, 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
June 12, 2017, 9:00 pm
Historian Sarna warns of anti-Semitic backlash in US if Kushner indicted
‘It’s good for Jews to worry,’ says renowned American Jewish scholar, while drawing parallels between the news and past events
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A still image from the film 'Bridge of Spies,' which tells the story of a Cold War exchange of agents between the US and Soviet Russia (screen capture: YouTube)
December 30, 2016, 6:46 pm
From dead drops to hacking: Moscow spies on world stage
A brief account of some of the most brazen Soviet and Russian espionage over the last few decades
By AFP
Michael Meeropol and brother Robert Meeropol outside the White House at a December 1, 2016, Washington, DC, rally aimed at clearing their mother's name. (Alan Heath/Rosenberg Fund for Children)
December 3, 2016, 10:55 pm
Rosenberg sons seek vindication from Obama for ‘perversion of justice’ in mother Ethel’s execution
At the apex of McCarthyism, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the only US civilians executed for espionage during the Cold War. Today, new doubt is cast on the validity of her indictment
By Rich Tenorio
Michael, left, and Robert Meeropol, the sons of Ethel Rosenberg, pose next to an old photograph of them, before they attempt to deliver a letter to President Barack Obama in an effort to obtain an exoneration for their mother, in front of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
December 2, 2016, 1:29 am
Sons of Ethel Rosenberg plead with Obama to exonerate their mother
Five decades after their first request, brothers return to White House with new evidence suggesting atomic spy’s innocence
By Eric Tucker and Josh Lederman
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg en route to the Federal House of Detention, after they had been found guilty of nuclear espionage. (Keystone/Getty Images/JTA)
August 12, 2015, 4:18 am
Ethel Rosenberg’s sons call for presidential pardon
In NY Times op-ed, brothers Michael and Robert Meeropol ask president to acknowledge mother was wrongly convicted, executed for espionage in 1953
By Brian Schaefer
In this April 26, 1956 file photo, David Greenglass, convicted atomic spy, sits beside Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph Oreto during a Senate Internal Security on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)
July 16, 2015, 2:35 pm
Unsealed testimony shows Ethel Rosenberg’s brother may have perjured
In an earlier court appearance, David Greenglass said he never discussed his sister’s role, but at trial offered damaging testimony
By Eric Tucker
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