Paris, France – Finally, paris has what communities in many European cities have long yearned for: a place where the observant can keep fit and keep modest at the same time.
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Kosher Gym, located in the heart of Paris’s northern Jewish community in the 19th arrondissement, offers the facilities of “regular” gyms – including showers and locker rooms – but, as its creator, David Cohen, says: “There is no problem of tzniut because no male is around when women are in the gym.”
Mr Cohen, who spent a year in a yeshivah near Paris learning Torah and playing football, loves to work out in his spare time.
He said: “We have cardio machines, rowers, lessons in gymnastics, boxing and even oriental dancing for women. What struck me since we started a couple of months ago is that 80 per cent of the calls we get are from women of the Lubavitcher community.”
until they sell out make it co-ed and ends up closing-(Kosher Gym of brooklyn)
It’s a shame that Americans prefer to be fat. The Kosher Gym here closed due to the lack of memberships.
Our local JCC (which is not frum management) has separate swimming hours for men and women.
The Boro Park Y has for the past 30 years had separate hours for men and for women so if you want to stay fit the address is 4910 – 14th Avenue. Join and be healthy.
kosher gym is lame, they have pathetic equipment, only thing missing in the “kosher gym” is seforim.
lucille roberts and life plex in monsey are ladies only. lucille roberts has better prices.
Lakewood has a very professional kosher gym, for many years already.
Two funny quotes from the article:
1) “Mr. … spent a year in a yeshivah near Paris learning Torah and playing football” – goes without comment.
2) “What struck me … is that 80 per cent of the calls we get are from women of the Lubavitcher community.” – why is that surprising?
In chicago we have the Kosher Gym in the Wifi Building called 2life. It’s a great place.