2025 Annual Appeal

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12 February 2025

Shalom,

I’m here again asking you to donate to the Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom’s annual appeal.  MoTAS supports Temple Ahavat Shalom with sukkah building, a pancake breakfast, food service for the Sisterhood holiday boutique, Shabbabaque, and Sunday meetings which are open to everyone. We also give directly to the Temple through our annual pledge and other donations.

Last fall MoTAS led the effort for a major landscaping project. For Veterans Day Shabbat we brought a Jewish chaplain to speak at services. Along with Sisterhood, we co-sponsored bringing you a speaker for the fall election. On March 16th we are co-sponsoring, again with Sisterhood, to bring you L’Dough V’Dough, a program from the Holocaust Museum LA.

MoTAS helps with camperships for Jewish summer camps. I’ve been told that this year we will have more campership requests than in recent previous years and that the prices of Jewish summer camps have increased. In Jewish tradition we often give in multiples of 18 because 18 symbolizes chai, which means life. This makes it somewhat tricky to adjust for inflation. For me, I sent my annual donation before writing this letter. I sent an additional $18 while writing this paragraph.

Please consider making your own inflation adjustment. I’m always amazed by the volunteer spirit of our members. When we have an upcoming event (like our poker tournament on March 9th) I send a sign-up sheet around the room, and it comes back filled with volunteers. Last year I was amazed by the generosity of our donors to our annual appeal. Please be generous again this year. Thank you,

Larry Hoffman, MoTAS President 2024/25

P.S.: We want to make donating easy. You can download, print, fill out and mail-in the printable form, you can donate online , or you can contact our Treasurer,  Roger Lowe,  at treasurer@tasnorthridge-motas.org to coordinate paying via Zelle, Venmo or Paypal.

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P.P.S. If you would also like to specifically support MoTAS in our temple beautification projects, the attached form has a segment for additional contributions to what we call “TAS Pride”. This money will go specifically for the further beautification of our temple buildings, grounds and play areas.  This year it will be used to help pay for the paint and tools for beautifying our security gates and the fencing along our parking lot.