Little crustaceans have Orthodox Jews worried whether water is kosher.

Restaurants and bakeries operated under Orthodox Jewish law were advised to filter New York City tap water to ensure purity. Federal regulations don't require New York City water to be filtered as it has some of the purest municipal water in the world. However, an inspection of city water came back with some unsettling results for Orthodox Jews – tiny creatures called copepods.

The little organisms are crustaceans and therefore not considered kosher. Although copepods, according to the city Department of Environmental Protection are harmless, the eating of crustaceans is prohibited under kosher low. (further more details in Water and Wastes Digest)

Just for the record, one of my best friends is a Israeli and we love to laugh at each other's culture.

I guess its one way we can find out and understand each other's religion and culture :)

Have a good weekend, people. Anyone fancy attending Saturday sunset mass with me?