The other day, as the sherut we were in traveled along one of Jerusalem's main thoroughfares, I noticed a sign on the back of a bus: http://www.koshergym.com/.
We have been learning a little about kashrut - the Jewish system that governs the preparation of food. Most restaurants here serve either meat or dairy products. You would have to go to a non-kosher restaurant to eat a cheeseburger, since kashrut prohibits eating cheese with meat. Yesterday, as we were sitting at an outdoor table enjoying our economical lunch of falafels on pita bread, a man from a bakery told us to move. We were not allowed to eat our falafels at that table. I guess that particular table was a dairy-only table, although we could not figure out what in our falafel sandwiches resembled meat. (Our education is still in it's infant stages.)
Anyway, the kosher gym thing piqued my curiousity. Turns out that this is a gym designed to assist haredim Jews who want to get and stay fit. They offer separate exercise times for men and women, kosher food, and the opportunity to pray and read while working out. If you're curious too, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sgh05k1dxs&feature=related. Also, http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm is an interesting read about kosher laws regarding food.
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