Yossi Gestetner is a news maker, public relations consultant and advocate in the New York Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities. His writings are published and/or quoted in Yiddish and English-language publications and websites of the NY Jewish Communities, and also by mainstream news sites such as the New York Daily News

New York Daily News

The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....

, Politico

Politico (newspaper)

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, and YNN

In early 2010, Gestetner led a PR effort in a campaign asking then-Florida Governor Charlie Crist

Charlie Crist

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 to grant clemency to Martin Grossman

Martin Grossman

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. The campaign produced 50,000 calls and emails in addition to letters from the Vatican and seven major Jewish organizations. Shortly thereafter, Gestetner considered a run for NY's 17 Congressional Seat, but withdraw a week later.

Using the pen name Dov Schtreicher, Gestetner used to write (discountinued from the issue of Aug. 05, 2011) center/center-right current event columns in Der Blatt

Der Blatt

Der Blatt is a weekly Yiddish newspaper published in New York by Satmar Hasidim.-History:Der Blatt was established in 2000, as a direct result of the Satmar succession feud. Prior to that time there was only one Satmar newspaper, Der Yid. In the dispute over the succession, Der Yid came under the...

, one of the three major weeklies of the Yiddish-speaking NY. Gestetner is a popular voice on Kol Mevaserhttp://www.pashkevil.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AMIMediaKit.pdf, a powerful info-line in the New York

New York

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 Yiddish-speaking communities. Gestetner's opinion pieces are often posted at Yeshiva World News

Yeshiva World News

Yeshiva World News ', is an Orthodox Jewish online news publication. It also has multiple services catering to Jews all over the world....

, and at The American Thinker

The American Thinker

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Personal life

Gestetner was born in New York in 1985. He was a four-year student at the Rabbinical Seminary of Adas Yereim in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, NY, an accredited higher education

Higher education

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institution. Gestetner’s religious orientation is Ultra Orthodox Jewish.

External links

http://www.yossigestetner.com