Kol Mevaser (), also known as Yiddish24, 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, the main

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on the hotline. Kol Mevaser serves as an alternative to

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for the Yiddish-speaking

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community, which traditionally shuns such media in favor of community-based information sources such as Kol Mevaser, that are presented in

. 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

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s, which consist of

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, and Jewish news, are updated twice a day by Wieder, while bulletin news is reported around the clock. Yossi Gestetner provides commentary on

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and

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, as well as current events. Other categories are updated less frequently. 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

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Yiddish24

In July 2019, Kol Mevaser launched a website and 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.

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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

Programming and content

Yiddish24

See also

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