Kol Mevaser

Kol Mevaser
Type	news hotline
Founded	2005
Language	Yiddish
Headquarters	Brooklyn, New York
Website	https://www.yiddish24.com/

Kol Mevaser (Yiddish: קול מבשר, lit. 'voice of the herald') 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]

Programming and content

Kol Mevaser was established in 2005 by Zalmen Wieder, the main news presenter on the hotline.^[1] Kol Mevaser serves as an alternative to radio broadcasting for the Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish community, which traditionally shuns such media in favor of community-based information sources such as Kol Mevaser, that are presented in Yiddish. It is one of the main sources of information for the global Yiddish-speaking community, with the largest audiences being in the United States, Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom.

The main news programs, which consist of local, world, and Jewish news, are updated twice a day by Wieder, while bulletin news is reported around the clock. Yossi Gestetner provides commentary on political and business news, as well as current events.^[2] Other categories are updated less frequently.^[1] There is a wide variety of programming on the hotline, including: Interviews conducted by Yitzchok Shloma Dresnser and Hendel Breuer; community affairs with Shaul Klein, Avrohom Yakov Vozner, Pinchas Glauber and Shaya Itzkowitz ("Eliezer Krausz"); psychology with Naftali Stein; and a section devoted to religious Jewish music.

Yiddish24

In July 2019, Kol Mevaser launched a website and app called "Yiddish24" for iOS and Android users. The website and app offer the same content that is broadcast on the Kol Mevaser hotline.^[3]

Access menu

1 - News, weather and lottery

1 - News
- 1 - Jewish news
- 2 - General news
- 3 - Bulletins
- 4 - News interviews
- 5 - Political news
- 7 - Business news

2 - Weather

3 - Lottery

3 - General topics

1 - Interviews

2 - Health

1 - Hershel Meisels
2 - Yitzchock Klahr
3 - Mordechai Weinberger LCSW, psychology
4 - Yoel Meirowitz
5 - Shimon Green, psychology

4 - Business and economy

1 - Yossi Gestetner, business news
2 - Eli Ekstein
3 - Yaakov Engel, economic observations
4 - Yitzchock Ekstein
5 - Issamar Ginzberg, marketing
6 - Shimon Green, business relations
7 - Stock market updates
8 - Motty Klein and Pinchas Glober
9 - Aaron Gottlieb, real estate
0 - Experience and success interviews

6 - Lighthearted content

2 - Yitzchok Shloma Dresnser and Velvel Schmeltzer, music commentary
7 - Political humor
8 - Ari Abramovitz, weird news
9 - Shlomie Sions, Tzeischem Lishlomie

7 - Holocaust history

8 - Political analysis

Weekly analyses by Hershel Friedman, Jake Turx, Yoel Mayorovitz, Shulem Fried, Avrum Chaim Friedman, Yitchok Klar, Shimon Rolnitski, Yoel Felzen, Yosef Chaim Yoine Cohen Rapaport ("Yoine Cohen"), Mechel Fisher and Yoel Weber

9 - Informative corner

1 - Shaul Klein
2 - Pinchas Glauber, community affairs
3 - Yoel Felzn
4 - Lazer Kraus
5 - Velvy Feldman
6 - Shimon Ralnitzki
7 - Ari Abramovitz
8 - Mendy Baum
9 - Pinchas Glauber, Q & A
0 - Yossi Gestetner

5 - Torah rubric

7 - Traffic reports

With David Goldstein

8 - Live hookups, music and archives

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Kol Mevaser Hotline: Farm Bill SNAP Cuts Impact Jewish New Yorkers" Archived 2022-05-22 at the Wayback Machine. Masbia.
^ "Finding His Voice". mishpacha.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. 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.
^ "Kol Mevaser App". yiddishworld.com (in Yiddish).