Announcing an Urgent meeting for mashgichim organized by the Guide to Chodosh

[Y. Herman]

Those of you on the Chodosh email list have received messages about the 
impending problems in making sure that we will continue to have an 
ongoing supply of Yoshon next season. Attached below is an announcement 
for mashgichim to attend an urgent meeting to address this problem. 
Please note that this meeting is only for mashgichim, plus the industry 
experts whom we have invited. Building security will not allow in any 
person who did not preregister for the meeting. I will, bli neder, share 
with everyone the results of this meeting.

Y. Herman
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The Guide to Chodosh/Yoseph Herman

Invites mashgichim to an

*URGENT SYMPOSIUM ON*

*AVERTING IMPENDING MAJOR PROBLEMS TO YOSHON FOOD PRODUCTION*

We are facing unprecedented shortages of spring wheat that has usually 
been available this time of the year to be stored for next season’s 
Yoshon. This is coupled with a corresponding unstable price situation in 
the futures markets for spring wheat. As a result, it is quite possible 
that methods used until now of producing Yoshon foods from stored Yoshon 
spring wheat may be curtailed or be unavailable this coming season. We 
must act urgently _now_ to facilitate continued availability of the 
Yoshon products that the consumers have been able to purchase in earlier 
years from bakeries, restaurants, pizza shops, catering halls and other 
establishments, as well as the diversity of packaged Yoshon foods that 
have been available at the groceries. The Guide to Chodosh of the last 
season listed for the metropolitan New York City area some 195 bakeries, 
catering halls, restaurants, pizza shops, etc that have produced Yoshon 
under the supervision of mashgichim. In addition we had 53 similar 
establishments elsewhere in the US, such as Baltimore, Boston, Los 
Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Miami. Also of great importance 
are the many Yoshon packaged foods, including noodles, pastas, and 
cookies. Our key contacts to all these establishments and products have 
been the Yoshon mashgiach. Therefore, we are inviting the mashgichim to 
join us at this symposium to learn and carry back to the companies under 
their supervision the extent and nature of the potential major problems 
to ongoing Yoshon availability and the possible solutions that may work 
if they are acted upon in time.

The symposium will consists of a round table discussion that will bring 
together, for the first time ever, all participants of the chain of 
Yoshon food production. These will include representatives of:

· Flour mills

· Flour distributors

· Wholesale and retail bakeries and other Yoshon food producers

*_WHEN:_** *Monday, June 16 ’08. 1:30-2:00 arrival and introductions. 
2-4 pm symposium session

*_Where:_* Orthodox Union (O-U), 11 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, 14^th 
floor conference room

*_Reservations:_* If you wish to attend, please call the Chodosh Hot 
Line at 718-305-5133 and record your full name, mailing address, cell 
phone number, email (if any), the name of the of the kashrus hashgocho 
you represent and the companies under your supervision for Yoshon. You 
may also send us this information by email, addressed to 
yherman at earthlink.net <mailto:yherman at earthlink.net>. Make sure that we 
confirm your reservation. The security guards at the O-U building will 
not allow anyone to attend this session without a prior confirmed 
reservation.