News & Updates

Smithsonian Magazine - When art historian David Landau first visited Venice’s Renaissance synagogues after purchasing a home in the Italian city 12 years ago, he was stunned to see flaking layers of paint, benches infiltrated by woodworms, and damaged plaster and stucco decorations. The Italian Synagogue was in such disrepair, in fact,...

The Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience postdoctoral program will include more than a dozen New York City institutions.  The program supports exceptional young researchers across the five boroughs of New York City as they pursue innovative investigations in neuroscience and advance in their careers toward becoming independent principal investigators.

Rob Goldrich, President and Chief Financial Officer of LLF since 2015, has announced his intention to leave the foundation in July 2022. Mr. Goldrich said, “It has been a great privilege and tremendous pleasure to have worked with the caring and competent professionals of the Leon Levy Foundation in helping expand our asset size and...

The Jerusalem Post - Work has begun on the reconstruction of some of the 50 massive marble columns of the basilica in the Ashkelon National Park as part of an overall facelift for the park, and next week the fourth pillar will be put in place. The largest basilica uncovered in Israel,...

Science.org - Some 3.5 billion birds fly through the southern border area of the contiguous United States each spring, then head north through the center of the country, Cornell ecologist Adriaan Dokter found in a 2018 study using weather radar. Come fall, after breeding season, roughly 4.7 billion birds travel south, this time along routes that cluster...

The New York Preservation Archive Project originally established the Archival Assistance Initiative in 2013 to assist historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations in identifying and maintaining their archival resources. Now, with the generous assistance of the Leon Levy Foundation, the Initiative is being revitalized with a new round of small grants in 2022. Applicants must demonstrate their project or...

The Wall Street Journal - The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by corpses, reveal the death agonies of Romans who didn’t get out in time. It’s been...

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has received a $750,000 grant from the Leon Levy Foundation. The new grant will help provide enhanced access to many of its audio and motion picture treasures that document the history of the performing arts extending as far back as the early 1900s. The archive at...

Roundabout Theatre Company is now accepting applications for two of the institution's signature Artists-in-Residence programs: the Roundabout Directing Fellowship and the Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group. The deadline for applications is Thursday, March 10 at 11:59pm (ET). Applicants may apply for one or both programs.