Contemporary Authorities

This author heard Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (at a Shiur at Yeshiva University) relate that he follows the lenient approach to Chadash. Rav Moshe Snow (a student of Rav Moshe Feinstein) told this author that Rav Moshe Feinstein's Yeshiva in the Lower East Side of Manhattan (Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem) followed the lenient approach to Chadash and Rav Moshe ate the Yeshiva's food. On the other hand, both Rav Aharon Soloveitchik and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein follow the strict approach to Chadash. Indeed, some claim that perhaps today we should be stricter in our observance of this Halacha. They note that it is relatively easier for us living in North America to follow the stricter approach than it was for our ancestors.