The following are details regarding today’s Adirei Hatorah event at Wells Fargo Arena. The address for the event is 3601 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19148.
The event is being held as part of the annual campaign to raise funds to cover the kollel budget of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ.
This is the third consecutive year that the event is being held, a continuation of an initiative started several years ago by Mr. Leizer Scheiner and his partners.
The following are event details.
1) Approximately 25,000 people are expected in attendance at the event. Tickets have been sold out. There are no further tickets for sale from the Adirei Hatorah office. Some tickets may be available through second party sellers.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rebbetzin Tziporah Faiga Alter a”h, wife of the the Gerrer Rebbe, the Pnei Menachem zt”l. She was 97.
In her final years, Rebbetzin Alter’s health declined, leading to her hospitalization at Maayanei Hayeshuah Hospital in Bnei Brak.
Born on 27 Tishrei 5687/1926, the rebbetzin was a daughter of Rav Avrohom Mordechai Alter, son of Rav Moshe Betzalel Alter and grandson of the Sefas Emes.
Her mother, Rebbetzin Yenta, was a daughter of Rav Shaul Moshe Zilberman, rov of Wierzchow and a significant figure in the Chassidic community in Eretz Yisroel.

The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit released the identities of some of the eight soldiers who tragically lost their lives in the explosion of an APC in Rafah on Shabbos:

Agudath Israel of America’s Florida Office commends Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature for including a new $3.5 million grant to support busing for Jewish day school and yeshiva students during the 2024-2025 school year in the state budget.
The grant will be administered by Agudath Israel and will help cover the cost of transportation for hundreds of students including many who have not been able to access transportation previously.
“In the wake of an alarming increase in antisemitic incidents and threats, Jewish schools have become more vulnerable targets,” said Rabbi Avrohom Luban, Associate Director of Agudath Israel’s Florida Office.

Watch: Rav Ephraim Wachsman’s Pre-Shavous 5784 Song at Yeshivas Sh’or Yoshuv

Religious Zionist Party Director Yehuda Wald shared a forceful message on social media criticizing Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri’s role in the War Cabinet.
“Aryeh Deri shouldn’t come to the War Cabinet meetings anymore until he makes a true step to bring substantial chareidi enlistment,” Wald wrote.
He continued, “He cannot morally and ethically send me and my friends to the battlefield to fight for the country while he sits quietly on the side and doesn’t do enough to ensure that his children and his voters’ children enlist and fight with us. I’ve had enough.”

Early Tuesday morning, the Knesset plenum approved the ongoing application of the Draft Law, which exempts chareidim, whose “Torah is their craft,” from serving in the IDF.
The bill passed with 63 Knesset members voting in favor and 57 against, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Except for Gallant, all coalition members supported the law.
This approval allows the coalition to advance the bill initially proposed by MK Benny Gantz in the previous Knesset regarding chareidi conscription, resuming the legislative process where it previously paused.
Thus, the government can expedite the bill’s progression to its second and third readings in the Knesset.

Matzav.com would like to wish its readers all over the globe a chag sameiach. As we celebrate our 3,336th anniversary since receiving the Torah at Har Sinai, we are reminded of the supremacy of Torah learning above all else. There are myriad lessons to be learned at this time of year, and we share several with you here.
Once, after Reb Sholom Shwadron gave a speech a few days before Shavuos, one of the audience came over to him. He had a few issues in Yiddishkeit that didn’t sit well with him. He was a very smart and intelligent person who had once been non-religious, now he had become observant and attended shiurim. Therefore Reb Sholom understood that he looked disturbed about the issues, but he meant well and really wanted to understand.

Agudath Israel of America is proud to introduce a compelling new initiative, Torah Perspectives, designed to provide profound wisdom and valuable insights from gedolei Yisroel and prominent rabbonim. This series aims to address contemporary issues through the timeless lens of Torah, offering guidance, inspiration, and chizuk to the wider Jewish community.
Torah Perspectives is hosted by Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger, Agudath Israel’s Director of Torah Initiatives.
The inaugural episode, titled “A Yid’s Response to the Challenge of Antisemitism Today,” delves into one of the most pressing issues facing the Jewish community. This critical discussion features two distinguished guests:

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, a member of the War Cabinet and a member of Bibi’s Likud party, is set to vote against the Rule of Continuity for the Charedi draft law, according to the Jerusalem Post. Often, voting against a bill is considered a resignation by a Minister, so it will be interesting to see if Gallant’s involvement in the current Government continues moving forward.
The Rule of Continuity allows the Knesset to advance a bill that was previously passed in a first reading, but was stopped due to the Knesset’s dissolution. If the Rule of Continuity is passed, Bibi will be able to advance the Charedi draft law that was first brought up by the Lapid-Bennet Government in 2022.