19: Start the year right with MoTAS: Shabbat, Seder, Superbowl, and Weilers

Posted on January 1, 2019 by cybermaven

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Men of TAS (MoTAS) Weekly for 10/17/18: Poker Tournament THIS Sunday

Posted on October 16, 2018 by cybermaven

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MoTAS Weekly for 9/13/17: Course Language Means It’s Golf Tournament Time — This Monday

Posted on September 12, 2017 by cybermaven

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29th Annual MoTAS Golf Tournament
Sunset Hills Country Club, Thousand Oaks CA
THIS MONDAY – SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

This coming Monday is the MoTAS Golf Tournament, and we need you to make it a success. It’s not too late, even if you don’t play golf, to ensure the success of the tournament. This tournament is what provides the funds so that MoTAS can operate. Here’s how you can help:

FIND PLAYERS

Our tournament has one of the lowest fees around, and for it you get not only a great day of golf, but breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You also get the opportunity to bid on silent auction prizes and play a bunch of great games. Even if you don’t play golf, you likely know people that do: military buddies, business associates, colleagues, friends. Encourage them to support our men’s club by coming out to play. They can sign up online at http://golf.tasnorthridge-motas.org/. Entries are only $215 per player.

DONATE AUCTION ITEMS

We need raffle and silent auction prizes. We don’t have enough donations from local businesses. Any we can get for free saves us from spending our own money. Here is what I am asking you to consider. Lots of us have gift certificates for restaurants, movies, yogurt shops, gas, etc. that have been sitting around and are not likely to be used. You might even have tickets to an upcoming play you cannot use. If you were willing to donate those to MoTAS for our tournament, you can write that off as a donation. You can also talk to businesses you frequent to see if they would like to donate a gift certificate to the tournament (donation forms are at this link). If you have a donation for the silent auction/raffle, contact Howard Miller at hmiller12@socal.rr.com.

VOLUNTEER TO HELP US

We need volunteers for the day or even half the day. People are needed to help register and to observe play at the par three holes where we have big prizes for a hole in one. Please see if you can take some time off to help our tournament succeed. It is a beautiful course with lots of shade and we provide our volunteers with breakfast, lunch and dinner — plus, you get the opportunity to bid on our silent auction items. We need at-least six more volunteers. If you are able to volunteer, contact Howard Miller at hmiller12@socal.rr.com.

BECOME A SPONSOR

Sponsorship opportunities are available at all levels, from $18 three-line messages to $36 business card ads to major sponsorships. Sponsorship shows that you support MoTAS in what we do and how we help the congregation. Visit here for more information on sponsorships. Sponsorships must be in by Friday in order to be included in the program.

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. Come be part of the Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom!

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2017 MoTAS Man of the Year: Daniel Faigin

Posted on February 1, 2017 by cybermaven

At the 2017 MoTAS Shabbat, the 2016 Man of the Year, Barry Mann, introduced this year’s Man of the Year as follows:

This year’s Man of the Year can truly be called a Renaissance Man. His interests are so varied that he should be up for “The Most Interesting Man in the World”.

If there is a job to be done, all you have to do is ask him and it will be done.

He is selfless to a fault. His knowledge of Judaism is astounding.

Having grown up in West Los Angeles and attending high school there, he received his undergraduate and masters degrees at UCLA.

He has a profound and varied interest in theatre and seems to never miss a performance, whether it be large or small theaters.

He is also a fanatic on board games and has an extensive collection of some of the most esoteric games you can imagine.

As a computer whiz, he has worked on our website, created flyers for our dining events and our various special events (including the golf tournament.)

He has maps in his head and is an expert on our California highways. He runs a number of blogs on the LA theatre scene and our LA streets and highways. His knowledge of computers and cyber security are well known.

He is our last two years president of MoTAS. He is our own DANIEL FAIGIN!!

MoTAS Weekly for 11/16/16: Help the Sisterhood Holiday Boutique / December Plans

Posted on November 16, 2016 by cybermaven

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MoTAS Weekly for 8/31/16: Highlighting Calls for Squares, Golf, Pancakes, Weilers, Denial Movie, Allan Sherman

Posted on August 31, 2016 by cybermaven

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Fathers and Sons

Posted on March 21, 2016 by cybermaven

As I write this post/article, I have just received word that Scott Yollis’ father passed away. He’s not alone: in March, other men in the congregation have lost fathers or fathers-in-law, including Mike Doner and Rabbi Lutz. It is also just after my father’s birthday; he passed away in 2004. Fathers play important roles in our lives: they pass down values, they serve as examples, they teach us how to lead. Our congregation is blessed with many active fathers, including the men of MoTAS and the fathers in our religious school.

One problem we have, however, is a generational divide between the fathers in the congregation. Although we all share the same goal — leadership in our family and leadership for the congregation — we feel we have little in common. The older dads form the core constituency of MoTAS. The younger dads are involved in the ECEC and activities like “Dad’s Night Out”. When we should be cross-pollinating our similar experiences, we separate and think we have little in common.

MoTAS would like to change that. First, we invite the younger dads to come to our Sunday morning meetings (timed to be during religious school), our MoTAS Seder, and our upcoming outing to see the Lancaster Jethawks — affordable, family-friendly baseball. We also want to work with the dad’s group in the ECEC — providing umbrella publicity, and working together to promote fund raisers for our groups and the congregation. If this is something you would like to help with, please contact me at president@tasnorthridge-motas.org .