The following Chodosh update was published by Rabbi Yoseph Herman, dated February 1, 2013. The continuing guidelines on purchase of Cheerios in Israel, as well as elsewhere, is the same as was formulated by the O-U and was printed in the Guide. Namely, wheat and wheat starch listed in the ingredients are Yoshon. If WHEAT read more »

General Mills in Israel Yoshon clarification: All General Mills products imported to Eretz Yisroel either through Nestle or through General Mills Israel are Yoshon regardless of the production dates. The OU does not take responsibility for products imported through private importers. By “private importers”, the OU means the following: It was explained to me that for as read more »

22 Kislev 5773 December 6, 2012 If you click on the link below you will be able to access the PDF document, the Kislev 5773 Chodosh Guide from Rabbi Yoseph Herman.  ”Note: This information was not posted at the request of Guide to Chodosh which has maintained the policy of not using the internet to read more »

11 Tishrei 5773 September 27, 2012 TENTATIVE REVISED CEREAL CHODOSH GUIDELINES 1) OATS: Until now, the Guide recommended the default cutoff packing dates for items containing oats, of Jul 26. This was a chumra based on the fear that the new Chodosh oats may be packed very shortly after the harvest of the new crop read more »

15 Menachem Av 5772 I issued an urgent bulletin earlier this week, when the O-U informed me that the General Mills flour mill received the first shipment of Chodosh spring wheat on Jul25. This was much earlier than I expected. It turns out that this shipment was an anomaly. Indeed by Jul 31 only about read more »

13 Menachem Av 5772 From Rabbi Yoseph Herman… The O-U informed us that the General Mills flour mill in Buffalo NY has already received its first shipment of Chodosh wheat for bakery flour on Jul 25. This date is the earliest we recall seeing Chodosh on the East Coast in the 40 years of the read more »

CHODOSH BULLETIN-24 JUL 12 From the Guide to Chodosh-Y. Herman PROGRESS OF THE HARVEST OF THE CHODOSH CROPS-UPDATE The US Department of Agriculture ( USDA) releases their weekly report on crop progress on Monday of each week. The following are the revised Chodosh starting dates based on the latest USDA report of 24 Jul 12. read more »

PROGRESS OF THE HARVEST OF THE CHODOSH CROPS-UPDATE The US Department of Agriculture ( USDA) releases their weekly report on crop progress on Monday of each week. The latest report indicates that the harvest of oats is well on the way. Our estimated oats packing cutoff date for oats is Jul 21, one week earlier read more »

4 Adar 5772 February 27, 2012 The O-U has determined that wheat starch where listed in the ingredients of  Cheerios cereals does not pose any Chodosh problems. Therefore, all Cheerios cereals that contains oats or oats plus wheat starch (but no other wheat ingredients, and no malt) have a Chodosh date of March 7 ’13. read more »