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.

Shavuos has become synonymous with milchigs. But what does it take to set up a system to ensure cholov yisroel milk? Let’s take a walk with Rabbi Tzvi Rosen – Kashrus Administrator at the STAR-K through a dairy farm. As we take this virtual tour he explains all the processes and systems to ensure the highest level of kashrus.
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More than 3,500 Israelis gathered at Park HaAsor in Efrat on Thursday to celebrate the completion of a Sefer Torah in memory of 48-year-old Lucy Dee, and two of her daughters: Maia, 20, and Rina, 15. The girls were murdered by a Hamas terrorist on April 7, 2023, while their mother succumbed to her wounds three days later, on April 10.
Since the beginning of the year, youth at educational institutions in Efrat attended a Safrus workshop, with more than 5,000 children partaking in writing the Torah’s 304,805 letters.
In addition, Yehuda Elon, an Israel Defense Forces reservist and ritual scribe affiliated with the “Sign of Love” organization, took the new Sefer Torah into the Gaza Strip, where soldiers helped write letters, Arutz 7 reported.

Two Likud Knesset members and a Likud minister are threatening to dodge party discipline on the Charedi enlistment issue.
Knesset members Dan Illouz and Moshe Saada, and Economy Minister Nir Barkat, sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who heads Likud, stating, “If the current draft recruitment bill for Charedi yeshivah students is brought to a vote, we will oppose it.”
“We know that this bill needs to be improved; also, the Supreme Court will disqualify it,” Saada told JNS. The draft law specifies that about 2,000 Charedi men will be recruited in the first stage.
There are 63,000 Charedi men eligible for the draft.

A long-time Shabbos goy in Shikun Skver has been dismissed….for being a Yid.
You see, the 70-year-old Shabbos goy – who identifies as Catholic and previously worked for the NYPD – is actually Jewish.
The truth emerged during a casual chat with a Skverer resident, during which the Shabbos goy revealed that his grandmother was Jewish and had lived in a village near Kiev, Ukraine.
Word spread rapidly, and Skverer dayanim directed local askanim to investigate and verify the claim.
A thorough investigation into the man’s background confirmed that the man, who had served as a Shabbos goy for over 15 years, is indeed halachically Jewish.

Finally, Misameach’s new, state-of-the-art, 25,000-square-foot Chuni Herzka Building is nearing completion. With the generous dedication by Mr. and Mrs. Chuny Herzka, two of Misameach’s most avid supporters involved in many charitable causes, Misameach is approaching the finish line. Their longstanding interest and involvement in Misameach have been instrumental in empowering Misameach to reach its goal of opening the Chuni Herzka Building in the very near future.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Kotlarsky zt”l, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement which oversees over 5,000 Chabad centers and educational institutions worldwide.
He was 74, just a few days shy of his 75th birthday on Rosh Chodesh Sivan.
He was born in 5709 (1949) in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, home to Lubavitch World Headquarters – 770 Eastern Parkway, where he would be spending most of his time between traveling the world on missions. His parents were Rabbi Hershel and Golda Kotlarsky (nee Schimmelman).