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April 22, 2005/Nisan 13 5765, Volume 57, No. 34
AZ Press Club schedules banquet on Passover
DEBORAH SUSSMAN SUSSER
Associate Editor
The Arizona Press Club will hold its annual awards banquet on Saturday, April 23, the first night of Passover, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.
"I can tell you that it was just an honest oversight on our part," APC president Laura Clymer told Jewish News. "At this point, all we can do is promise to be more sensitive when we figure out our scheduling for next year."
In the meantime, on behalf of the APC, Clymer apologized to "our members who are not going to be able to attend the banquet because we've created a conflict for them."
"It doesn't personally bother me one way or the other," said Paul Rubin, a New Times staff writer who describes himself as "not devout," but "a member of the tribe." Rubin is a finalist for the Virg Hill Arizona Journalist of the Year Award and plans to attend the banquet. "However," Rubin said, "maybe it points out the fact that there aren't enough Jewish people on the Arizona Press Club board this year."
Rubin plans to hold a second seder on April 24.
Arizona Republic restaurant critic Howard Seftel, who is Jewish, received an award from APC but will be attending a seder on the night of the banquet. "The press club conflict is hardly unique," he wrote in an e-mail to Jewish News. "(Passover) is one of those holidays that isn't on everybody's radar here - unlike, say, N.Y. or L.A. And because it's on a different date every year, it's more difficult to keep track of.
"However," Seftel wrote, "I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't on a few more organizations' radar screens next year."
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