Tinted Windows At The Jews Case Study

Revealing workout wear has driven a rift between the YMCA clients and the Hasidic Jews in Montreal's Mile End district. Some members of the Avenue du Parc YMCA were upset with the centre's administrators, who allowed windows on the building's west side to be tinted in order to placate leaders of a Hasidic synagogue across the alley. The Y members claimed that the tinted windows compromise the building's interior lighting and make it hard to practice tai chi and yoga. About 100 of them have signed a petition defending their workout clothes and demanding that the tinted windows should be removed. Members of the Yetev Lev synagogue, on Hutchison Street, paid for tinted windows at the Y after they complained that their children and youth were unwittingly watching too many women in various states of undress work out at the gym. …show more content…
Rabbi Asher Wieder said he doesn't see the request as being unreasonable, given what Y members would normally look on to through the windows."Their windows are basically [on] a lane, where traffic is, during the day, and even at night, trucks, deliveries, garbage removal. So really, there's no view for them," he told CBC Tuesday. But Y members want the congregation to accommodate its habits to the community centre, not vice versa. The members who signed the petition said that the synagogue should tint its own windows if it wants to shield Hasidic children from activities at the gym. The case is about deciding who should have priority. The YMCA or the