Kol Mevaser

Kol Mevaser (Hebrew: קול מבשר‎) is a Yiddish broadcaster, which runs as a news hotline. It has options for news, weather forecasts and traffic reports, together with scholarly information on several issues which are important to the Yiddish-speaking Haredi Jewish community, and interviews with important figures.[1]

Kol Mevaser
The logo and number of Kol Mevaser
Typenews hotline
Founded2005
LanguageYiddish
HeadquartersBrooklyn, New York
Websitehttps://www.yiddish24.com/
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This article is about the Yiddish information hotline. For the historical newspaper, see Kol Mevasser.

Programming and content

Kol Mevaser was established in 2005 by Zalmen Wieder who is still the main news presenter on the hotline.[1] Kol Mevaser serves as a replacement for radio broadcasting for the Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish community which relies heavily on news and information within the community that is delivered in Yiddish. It is one of the main sources of information for the Yiddish-speaking community globally with the largest audiences in the USA, Canada, Israel and the U.K.

The news is broadcast throughout the day, with the main news programs – the local & world news and Jewish news – being updated twice a day. The political news and business news are updated daily by Yossi Gestetner who also gives analysis on current events.[2] Other categories are updated less frequently,[1] and interviews are conducted by Yitzchok Shloma Dresnser.

Listening options are news (Jewish, Hasidic, local, national, world, political, health, business) and current event interviews; weather; lottery winning numbers; long interviews, health, business and politics; Torah issues (including history and biographies of Tzadikim); traffic and a special music section with the latest in Religious Jewish music.

Contributors
  • Breaking/Main News: Zalmen Wieder
  • Traffic Reports: David Goldstein
  • Business/Political News: Yossi Gestetner
  • Health: Hershel Meisels and Yoel Meirowitz
  • Weird/Odd News: Ari Abramowitz
  • Music interviewer and talk show host: Velvel Schmeltzer
  • Interviews: Yitzchok Shloma Dresnser and Hendel Breuer
  • U.S. Current Events Analysis: Yossi Gestetner,[2]
  • Political science and criticism: Yitchok Klar, Shimon Rolnitski, Yoel Felzen, Yosef Chaim Yoine Cohen Rapaport ("Yoine Cohen"), and Avrohom Yakov Terkeltaub ("Jake Turx"), senior White House correspondent for Ami Magazine.
  • Global Affairs Analysis: Hershel Friedman and Mechel Fisher
  • Community Matters: Rabbi Shaul Klein, Rabbi Avrohom Yakov Vozner, Pinchas Glauber and Shaya Itzkowitz ("Eliezer Krausz")
  • Psychology: Shimon Green, Naftali Stein and Mordechai Weinberger (LCSW)

Yiddish24

In July 2019, Kol Mevaser released an app called "Yiddish24" for iOS and Android users. The app offers the same content that is broadcast on the Kol Mevaser hotline.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Kol Mevaser Hotline: Farm Bill SNAP Cuts Impact Jewish New Yorkers". Masbia.
  2. "Finding His Voice". mishpacha.com. Retrieved 2018-02-27. There is a definite edge to Yossi Gestetner, the way he speaks, even the way he walks. If you’re one of his listeners on the Yiddish-language Kol Mevaser hotline, you hear it in his news analysis.
  3. "Kol Mevaser App". yiddishworld.com (in Yiddish).
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