In This Issue:

1. PROPOSED SLATE OF OFFICERS – 2026-2027
2. MOTAS MAY MEETING – SU MAY 3
3. DINING OUT – CHIS CHINESE – WE MAY 6
4. MOTAS ANNUAL APPEAL
5. REMINDER: ZELLE/VENMO ADDRESS CHANGE
6. APRIL 2026 MEETING MINUTES
7. IN CLOSING

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1. PROPOSED SLATE OF OFFICERS – 2026-2027

At the April 2026 Membership Meeting, the Nominating Committee announced the proposed slate of officers for the period July 2026 through June 2027. This slate is:

• Howard Schnee, President
• Bill Shapiro & Scott Yollis, Vice Presidents
• Larry Pfefer, Treasurer
• Hal Bass, Secretary

If any other member is interested in running, please contact Howard Schnee at president@tasnorthridge-motas.org no later than April 23. The election will be held during the May membership meeting.

2. MOTAS MAY MEETING – SU MAY 3

Our May Membership meeting will be Sunday, 5/3, at 8:45am. Note that this is a week earlier than our typical date due to Mothers Day. A full breakfast, including bagels, lox, and eggs, will be available starting at 8:45am. The topic has not yet been announced. We thank the Breakfast Crew for their hard work. Elections for our 2026-2027 officers will take place at this meeting.

3. DINING OUT – CHIS CHINESE – WE MAY 6

Would you like an easy way to help MoTAS financially? How about taking your family to dinner. The MoTAS “Dining Does Good” allows you to go out to dinner, and have the restaurant donate a portion of your check support the Men of TAS. Our May Dining Does Good” will be Wednesday, May 6  at Chi’s Chinese, 9635 Reseda Blvd, Northridge, CA 91324, (818) 886-6928.

How do you get a flyer? You can find a flyer for the event at https://wp.tasnorthridge-motas.org/activities/dining/ (click on the image of the flyer) or download PDF from our Google Drive . From there, just click on the printer icon to print, or the three dots to download.

We really encourage you to come and support these events: we raise a little extra funds for our work, but more importantly, we come together and break bread as a Temple family on a regular basis. It is a real joy to walk into a neighborhood restaurant and see your Temple friends, to sit down and share a table and talk. This is the heart and goal of MoTAS: Building Relationships.

4. MOTAS ANNUAL APPEAL

The MoTAS Shabbat marks the start of the Annual Appeal, which continues until the end of May. You should have received the official letter from our President; but you can also take care of things online. MoTAS depends on contributions from our membership to do what we do, and to help Temple Ahavat Shalom. To contribute online or to print a donation form, just visit support.tasnorthridge-motas.org or go directly to https://wp.tasnorthridge-motas.org/about/support-motas/. The online direct donation page is here; the link to our Google Drive account with the downloadable PDF form is here.

5. REMINDER: ZELLE/VENMO ADDRESS CHANGE

As a reminder: With the passing of Roger Lowe Z”L and the transfer of Treasurer operations to our new MoneyMaven, Larry Pfefer, our Zelle and Venmo addresses have changed. Please add the following addresses to your Zelle / Venmo address books, and delete the old addresses. We are in the process of updating event forms, webpages, and Ticketleap as events occur.

• Zelle: treasurer@menoftas.org or the Zelle tag MenofTAS
• Venmo: treasurer@menoftas.org

Our Paypal address, onlinesales@tasnorthridge-motas.org, remains unchanged.

6. APRIL MEMBERSHIP MEETING MINUTES

Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom General Membership Meeting Minutes

Date: Sunday, April 12, 2026, at TAS

Presiding: President Howard Schnee

Members Present: Howard Schnee (President), Hal Bass (Secretary), Les Birken, Brian Hatkoff, Larry Hoffman (Immediate Past President), Bob Levine, Joel Lowell, Barry Mann, Howard Miller, Chuck Mondrus, Larry Pfefer (Treasurer), Russ Rapoport, Bill Shapiro (VP), Ben Tenn, Mike Thornhill, Mark Tilles, Scott Yollis (VP)

Guest: Kathy Pullman

Coffee & Breakfast: Scott Yollis, Mike Thornhill, Chuck Mondrus, Bob Levine

President’s Report:

• Chi’s Chinese Restaurant in Northridge will be our next featured Dining Does Good restaurant on Wednesday, May 6. Be sure to print out and present the flyer on the MoTAS website to your server or cashier. If you know of other establishments that would be good venues for this program, let Dining Does Good coordinator Barry Mann know.
• Howard Miller said the Poker Tournament on March 22 attracted 67 players and generated a record profit of $9,400. Howard thanked the MoTAS members, plus Robyn Blachman and Kathy Pullman, who assisted with set-up, admission, food service, and clean-up.
• Howard Schnee, on behalf of the MoTAS membership, presented a plaque to grid maven Kathy Pullman in recognition of her longstanding dedication to the MoTAS Sports Squares program and other initiatives such as Shabbabeques and Poker Tournaments.

New Business:

• MoTAS Logo Shirts: Attractive, stylish T-shirts, polo shirts and dress shirts with the MoTAS logo are available to order, while supplies last, for $20, $35 and $40, respectively. Contact Larry Pfefer to place an order.
• The MoTAS Annual Appeal is now under way and will continue through May 2026.
• Yom HaShoah Candles: Yom HaShoah will begin at sundown Monday, April 13, and end 24 hours later. Yellow candles and a cover letter were mailed to the congregation last month.
• “Mensch with a Wrench” Mark Tilles’ “10 Most Important Maintenance Items Around the House,” which he presented at the February meeting, is now available by popular request on the MoTAS Google Share Drive.
• Nominating Committee Report: Howard Miller, Bob Levine, and Daniel Faigin are members of the Nominating Committee for 2026-27 MoTAS officers. Nominees are Howard Schnee, President; Bill Shapiro & Scott Yollis, Vice Presidents; Larry Pfefer, Treasurer; and Hal Bass, Secretary. Additional nominations should be sent to President Howard Schnee for publication in The Weekly no later than April 23, which is 10 days before our May 3 General Membership Meeting when the election will take place.
• This year’s MoTAS Shabbabeque will take place after services Friday evening, June 12. Barry Mann proposed, and Joel Lowell seconded, a motion that the fee for this year’s Shabbabeque be waived for both temple members and guests. A motion by Chuck Mondrus to table Barry’s proposal pending further discussion at the May 3 General Membership Meeting was defeated, and the original motion carried.
• Joel Lowell introduced, and Ben Tenn seconded, a motion to spend up to $14,000 of Sports Squares funds to re-landscape the picnic grounds along the Rinaldi Place fence between the chapel and exit driveway. Howard Miller shared a diagram of the proposed refurbishment and led the discussion. The motion carried unanimously.

Next Meeting: The next General Membership Meeting will take place Sunday, May 3, 2026, at 8:45 am.

Respectfully submitted,

Hal Bass/Secretary

IN CLOSING

As always, remember that the Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom is *your* organization. Keep up to date on our activities at http://www.tasnorthridge-motas.org/ and participate. Sign up for our action alert list at http://tinyurl.com/motas-action-alert. We want to serve all the men of Temple Ahavat Shalom and welcome new participants from the TAS membership. Join our Facebook group and “follow” our website. Join the MoTAS Google Group at https://groups.google.com/g/tas-motas (you may need to be logged into your Google account, if you have one). Come be part of the Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom!