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Funding2026 Annual Appeal

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12 February 2025

Shalom,

I’m writing to you as the President of the Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom (“MOTAS”) for our annual appeal.

Every year MOTAS asks for our Temple members to consider making a charitable contribution to MOTAS. Why MOTAS? Well, MOTAS’s goals, activities and purposes are to support the Temple’s religious, cultural and educational advancement among MOTAS, Temple membership and the Jewish community at large.

MOTAS voluntarily conducts all of these activities and more:

  1. Provides a delicious pancake breakfast for our religious school students, their parents and Temple staff for a good kickoff for Sukkot at the start of the school year;
  2. Builds the beautiful Sukkah which is decorated by our students for the holiday;
  3. Prepares and serves dinners at the annual Shabbabque;
  4. Sorts and mails out memorial candles for Yom Ha-Shoah to our Temple members;
  5. Conducts a joint men’ s Passover service with another synagogue;
  6. Participates and supports the Purim events for our children;
  7. Funds Jewish camperships for our students and provide gifts for our Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, and;
  8. Supports the Cantor’ s concert, Sisterhood boutique and Temple GALA.

MOTAS actively raises funds by:

  1. Our Dining Does Good raises funds by eating at a restaurant that donates back a percentage of the proceeds;
  2. Our Sports Squares enables a fun way for persons to enjoy sports competition results and contribute to the Temple;
  3. Our largest fund raiser is the MOTAS Texas Hold’em tournament to be held this year on March 22, 2026 at the Temple for those who enjoy poker.

MOTAS members consistently sign up to volunteer to make all of these activities a success. Your contributions will add financial resources so that MOTAS can meet its goals to deliver  on its commitments and donate money to the Temple.

Our donors have always been very generous, especially since you already donate to the Temple and its own fund raising events. Your donation of any amount (such as in multiples of $18 (chai) in Jewish tradition) will allow us to continue our good work for the Temple. Thank you for your attention as we very much appreciate your generosity.

Sincerely,
Howard Schnee, MOTAS President

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.

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