secretary of state for human
rights who is on the Wash-
ington Jewish Week's board
f directors.
The 13-sentence memo re-
ported that Mr. Carroll had
told a May 1991, "gathering
of the 'alternative Jewish
community' " in Takoma
Park, a Washington suburb
:n. Maryland, that " 'as long
as we are meeting on park
' benches and the right is
meeting in hotel ballrooms,'
hen the Jewish community
must still be embracing the
right."
Information on the memo
came from a "former AIPAC
intern" who had attended
the conference, which was
-ponsored by New Jewish
Agenda and other groups.
The Voice article dubs the
ex-intern a "spy."
Mr. Rosen said he had
given the memo to someone
on the Washington- Jewish
,Week board who had in-
quired whether he knew
anything about Mr. Carroll.
Mr. Carroll's comments at
he "alternative" event, par-
ticularly, in Mr. Rosen's
words, their " 'us vs. them'
theme," persuaded the
AIPAC official that the Jew-
ish Week had become "the
captive of an ideological fac-
tion" that was to the left of
the mainstream of the Jew-
ish community.
News of the "alternative"
event only compounded Mr.
Rosen's animus about the
paper that originated in
1988 when its chief in-
vestigative reporter, Larry
'Cohler, wrote several. ar-
ticles about AIPAC that the
AIPAC official considered
highly inaccurate. Among
these was to state that Mr.
Rosen intended to make
Near East Report, AIPAC's
newsletter, "a more pro-
GOP organ."
Mr. - Rosen acknowledged
that he harbored "a personal
grudge" against Mr. Cohler,
but said that his giving the
memo to a Jewish Week
board member had been in-
tended to change the paper's
editorial policy, not its per-
sonnel.
"Keeping the paper in the
hands of the 'alternative'
crowd was unhealthy," said
Mr. Rosen.
Reached at his home in
Takoma Park, Mr. Carroll
said it was "inappropriate
for Rosen to take a memo
from a second-level staffer
and use it in a way to clearly
discredit me as a journalist. I
wrote 75 editorials in two
years. If anyone wanted to
determine my politics, they
could have looked at the
of my work."
He said he did not recall
using the pronoun "we"
while speaking to the
"alternative" group. If he
had, he said, "it would have
been the same as using 'we'
when talking to Hadassah. I
would use 'we' with any
group of Jews."
What Mr. Carroll said had
been the "main point" of his
talk was not included in the
AIPAC memo: "The
`alternative' community is
too much anti-Israel and too
little pro-Jewish."
Mr. Carroll disputes the
Village Voice claim that the
AIPAC memo cost him his
job. He said that publisher
Leonard Kapiloff "has told
people he was displeased
with me because of slumping
circulation and that I was
running the paper as if it
was mine. In other words, as
if I was the editor."
(Linda Kuzmack, the
woman_ who replaced Mr.
Carroll at the Jewish Week,
left the paper last Friday.
For now, the paper has no
top editor.)
Washington Correspondent
ometimes the line
between legitimate
political activity and
activity of a more sinister
nature is a nebulous one —
ust as the line between ob-
jective and partisan repor-
ting can be hard to discern.
These issues percolated to
The surface in a particularly
personal way last week
when an article in the
Village Voice reported on
how a memo from a pro-
Israel lobbying group
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