Yoshon Contacts

Contacts Listed By Country Below

Melbourne

Local Contacts:

Kolel Bais Hatalmud
362A Carlisle St.
Balaclava, Melbourne (3183)

Note: Locally grown Wheat and Barley are Yoshon! Bakeries use local wheat flour for breads and challah. Some bread-like cakes, such as yeast cakes may be Chodosh.
For pasta, ask for Israeli products, which are always Yoshon. During some years, most barley used for cholent comes from North America and may be Chodosh.

For Local Information, Contact:

Rabbi S. Golovenshitz
011-323-230-8537

Montreal

Note: Wheat and oat items made in Canada are generally yoshon at least up to a packing date of Sept 22.

Contacts:

Rabbis Peretz Jaffee or Y. Wenger of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal
5491 Victoria Ave.
Montreal
(514) 739-6363.
(They publish local Chodosh Bulletins)

Bakeries

Renfell Bakery-Montreal
Yoshon under the hashgacha of the CRC.

Toronto

Local Contact:

Rabbi Yehoshua Norman at the COR
(416) 635-9550
(COR also publishes local Chodosh Bulletins.)

Gateshead

Local Contact:

Rabbi Elozor Lieberman
37 Grasmere St West
Gateshead
Telephone 011-44-191-477-1598
(All food establishments in Gateshead, England are Yoshon under the hashgocho of Rabbi Lieberman.)

London

Local Contacts:

Rabbi Michoel Scharf of Kedassia
Office phone: 011-44-208-800-6833, Fax: 011-44-208-809-7292.
(All packaged items, under their hashgocho are certified. Most bakeries are Yoshon. The season starts in Nov. or later. Contact them for updated bakery lists.)

Federation of Synagogues
London
Telephone number 011-44-208-202-2263
Dayan Moshe Elzas.
(All packaged products with the Federation’s KF symbol are always Yoshon, whether sold in Israel or elsewhere.)

London Beth Din
Rabbi Gershon Feinsilver
Telephone number 011-44-208-343-6253
(Contact them for some Yoshon information.)

Manchester

Local Contact:

Manchester Beth-Din
00-44-161-740-9711
(Many services are Yoshon under the Beth Din.)

Food Exported By Israel

Note: Food produced in Israel under reliable hashgacha are also always Yoshon.
In addition, all items produced under the hashgacha of the Badatz Eida HaChareidus of Yerushalayim are also always Yoshon, even if they are packed outside of Israel.

Food Imported to Israel

Note: Many American-brand-name food items sold in Israel and other countries are produced under contract outside of the USA. Often packaged goods are imported to Israel without regard for the possibility of them being Chodosh. Importers may paste their own labels, in Hebrew on such packages, describing the foreign kashrut organization that vouches for the kashrut, but not the Yoshon status, of the contents. The general public in Eretz Yisrael is often unaware that some hashgacha in Chutz L’Aretz are not usually avoiding Chodosh.

Reliable Hashgacha

Rabbi O. Y. Westheim
(Everything under his hashgacha is always Yoshon everywhere in the world. This includes Bobbie’s fish products sold in Europe.)

Kedassia
Rabbi Michoel Scharf of Kedassia
Office phone: 011-44-208-800-6833, Fax: 011-44-208-809-7292
London
(Everything with this hashgacha on it Yoshon everywhere in the world.)

London Federation of Synagogues
Telephone number 011-44-208-202-2263. Dayan Moshe Elzas.
(London Federation of Synagogues advised that to their knowledge all crackers and biscuits produced in Europe are Yoshon. Obviously not all of these are under the hashgacha of the Federation. All packaged products with the Federation’s KF symbol are always Yoshon, whether sold in Israel or elsewhere.)

Johannesburg

Local Contact:

The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa in Johannesburg (UOS)
011-27-11-485-4865
www.uos.co.za
(Up to date Yoshon information is available from the UOS. Their Yoshon Bulletin may be accessed on the Web at their site. Look for the “Kashrus Guide”, and under that, look for “Yoshon Update”.)