News & Updates

The New York Times - Created by the Anne Frank House and presented in partnership with the Center for Jewish History, “Anne Frank the Exhibition” aims to examine Anne Frank’s life — and death — with a scope not often found in other treatments of this chapter in history. Following a chronological path,...

Forbes - NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World dives into Spain’s past presenting Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain, the first exhibition in the U.S. to showcase the Umayyad caliphate who ruled Spain in the tenth century CE and their palace-city of Madinat al-Zahra...

The gala will celebrate WNYC’s century of service, spanning from its origins as New York’s first City-run radio station to its transformation into an independent public radio station and global leader in audio storytelling. The evening will honor the Leon Levy Foundation, whose $2.5M contribution has enabled the digitization of NYPR’s archives.

After an eight-year tenure as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, a visionary psychiatrist and neuroscientist, assumed his new role on August 15, 2024, as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Executive Director of the...

NYU President Linda G. Mills and Provost Georgina Dopico today announced the appointment of Greg Woolf—currently the Ronald J. Mellor Distinguished Professor of Ancient History at UCLA and the former director of the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) at the University of London—as the new Leon Levy Director of NYU’s Institute for...

The Leon Levy Foundation has donated $10 million to the CUNY Graduate Center to endow the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography, the premiere institute for biography in the U.S. This donation is the second largest in the Graduate Center’s history and brings the Leon Levy Foundation’s total giving to the school to $22.8...

Moynihan Public Service Fellows receive awards totaling $10,000, take two elective courses dedicated to professional development and public service, and participate in a paid summer internship in city government or in another public service institution.

Pagine Ebraica International - After several months, the facade and left tower of the Synagogue of Florence have finally been cleared of the scaffolding. The end of a restoration set off by the finding of some structural fragilities has officially been certified with a ceremony in the premises of the Jewish Community of Florence. It...

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Library and Archives, based at the Bronx Zoo, is proud to announce the completion of its Shelby White and Leon Levy Film Initiative.  Sponsored by the Leon Levy Foundation, this monumental project allowed WCS to assess and inventory more than 1,600 historical film reels. With the digitization of nearly...