Spandex tops, shorts and other not Tznius workout wear has driven a rift between YMCA clients and Chassidim in Montreal’s Mile End district.
Some members of the Avenue du Parc YMCA are upset with the centre’s administrators, who allowed windows on the building’s west side to be tinted in order to placate members of a Shul across the alley.
The Y members claim the tinted windows compromise the building’s interior lighting and make it hard to practise tai chi and yoga.
They’ve started a petition defending their workout clothes and demanding the tinted windows be removed.
Members of the Yetev Lev Shul paid for tinted windows at the Y after they complained their children were unwittingly watching too many women in various states of undress work out at the gym.
The Y members said the Shul should tint its own windows if it wants to shield their children from activities at the gym.
YMCA manager Serge Saint-André said he will investigate his members’ complaints.
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
5 Responses
Their argument seems reasonable. If anyone should tint their windows it should be the shul.
There may have been a concern that people walking to and from shul will see.
Gevalt ingeshrigen everyone stop bickering bout this story none of them had2!… I think its very nice of them to except to tint there windows… U all get so emotionaly involved take a chill its a story in the passt…hu was there first hu was there second whos grandfather owned the plot of land ah mean chill chil..
Even if the shul was there first, the YMCA is not doing anything against the law. As frume yidden we have special needs; well, we should take of them ourselves and not make it other people’s problem.
the Shul already has tinted windowns also the Yeshiva (located on the top floor from the Shul) but when you are opening a window or walking by you can see. i think we are right to protect our children. also if the Y’s board is agreeing to us so whats the problem?