He joined the Socialist Party of America and wrote for the Jewish Daily Forward and the Leader.
In 1936, after years of infighting, editor James Oneal left Levitas in charge.
[1][4][7] In 1960, former US Assistant Secretary of State and member of FDR's "Brain Trust, Adolf A. Berle wrote that Levitas made The New Leader "a wellspring of first-hand information on foreign affairs."
He noted, "In particular, he wished to prevent the crystallization into accepted history of untrue myths propagated by propaganda services.
"[2] In 1984, Sidney Hook and Arnold Beichman wrote "what distinguished The New Leader, under Sol Levitas, from other publications was that its writers consistently involved themselves with other questions of the day, what Mr. Glazer felicitously calls the large areas of the public realm, such as technology, nuclear arms, ethnic relations, trade unionism and other issues.