http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast...sher.water.ap/
NYC water not so kosher
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
NEW YORK (AP) -- A glassful of cold New York City tap water not kosher?
It may be true -- and just in case, restaurants and bakeries operated under Orthodox Jewish law were advised Tuesday to use filters that can ensure water purity.
The problem: tiny creatures called copepods, which are crustaceans.
Under Jewish law the eating of crustaceans -- aquatic animals with skeletons outside their bodies, including shrimp, crabs and lobsters -- is barred.
Stores in heavily orthodox Brooklyn reported a run on water filters and rabbis considered whether additional measures were necessary.
Rabbi Abraham Zimmerman, of the Orthodox Satmar sect, said the recent discovery of the copepods was a small hardship, but he called on the city to help in making its water kosher.
But the Department of Environmental Protection, which runs the reservoirs, said that the copepods are impossible to do away with and that they deliver health benefits to the reservoir.
traduzione: si è scoperto che l'acqua di N.York contiene copepodi, piccoli crostacei che non sono kosher. Da qui l'allarme dei rabbini, che raccomandano di filtrare l'acqua. Il rabbino Abraham Zimmerman ha invitato l'amministrazione municipale ad impegnarsi a rendere kosher l'acqua della città (!).
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