Kol Mevaser ( yi, קול מבשר, lit=voice of the herald) is a

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broadcaster, which runs as a news hotline. It has options for

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and

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, together with scholarly information on several issues which are important to the Yiddish-speaking Haredi Jewish community, and

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with important figures."Kol Mevaser Hotline: Farm Bill SNAP Cuts Impact Jewish New Yorkers"
. Masbia.

Programming and content

Kol Mevaser was established in 2005 by Zalmen Wieder who is still the main

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on the hotline. Kol Mevaser serves as a replacement for

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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 US, Canada, Israel and the U.K. The news is broadcast throughout the day, with the main

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s – the

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and Jewish news – being updated twice a day. Beside the bulletin that's being updated constantly during daytime and during the night only in time of major political or other news developing .The political news and

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are updated daily by Yossi Gestetner who also gives analysis on current events. Other categories are updated less frequently, and interviews are conducted by Yitzchok Shloma Dresnser. Listening options are

(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

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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

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host: Velvel Schmeltzer * Interviews: Yitzchok Shloma Dresnser and Hendel Breuer * U.S. Current Events Analysis: Yossi Gestetner, *

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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 ''

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''. * 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)

Access Menu

1 News, weather, lottery,

1 News

* 1 Yiddish news, * 2 general news, * 3 bulletin, * 4 news interviews, * 5 political news, * 7 business news,

2

Weather

3

Lottery

3 interview ,analysis, and history,

1 general Interviews

2 health

* 1 rabbi hearshel missels * 2 yitzchock klahr * 3 mordchai weinberger (pda) q&a * 4 yoel mayorovits * 5 shimon green

4 business and economy

* 1 yossi gesstetner * 2 eli ekstein * 3 yakov engel (economic observations) * 4 yitzchock ekstein * 5

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* 6 Shimon green (business relations) * 7 stock market updates * 8 motty klein & pinchas glober * 9 aron gotlib (real estate knowledge) * 0 experience & success interviews

7 holocaust history

8 political analysis and criticism

Weekly analyses by hershel friedman, turks, yoel mayorovitsh, shulem fried, avrum chaim friedman, yoel weber,

9 informative corner

* 1 shaul klein * 2 pinchas glauber * 3 yoel felzn * 4 laizer kraus * 5 velvy feldman * 6 shimon ralnitzki * 7 ari abramovits * 8 Mandy baum * 9 pinchas glauber Q&A

7 traffic conditions

8 torah corner

Yiddish24

In July 2019, Kol Mevaser released a website and a app called "Yiddish24" for

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and Android users. The website and app offer the same content that is broadcast on the Kol Mevaser hotline.

References

External links

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"קול מבשר נייעס"
(in Yiddish)
"אקטועלע אנאליזן מיט הרב אליעזר קרויס-קול מבשר"
(in Yiddish) Political mass media in the United States Broadcast journalism Haredi Judaism in New York City Mass media companies based in New York City Mass media companies established in 2005 Mass media in New York (state) Orthodox Judaism in New York City Telecommunication services Telephone newspapers Yiddish-language mass media in the United States {{Yiddish-stub