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Posted By richards on April 3, 2014

Under Jewish laws co-ed Zumba is 'out of the question' as women are forbidden from dancing provocatively in front of men Rabbi Eliyahu Fink says some religious leaders also believe women-only classes violate rules as the dance moves 'harm ones spirituality'

By Sadie Whitelocks

Published: 14:28 EST, 3 April 2014 | Updated: 14:44 EST, 3 April 2014

Zumba has been given a kosher makeover so Orthodox Jewish women can finally join the sexy Latin-inspired fitness craze.

Shimrit Adar, 31,of Shimi 2 Zumba in Brooklyn, New York, hosts women-only $10 classes in a synagogue basement and edits raunchy lyrics out of dance songs to keep Rabbis happy.

She told the Wall Street Journal that she has 'sanitized' 50 music tracks to date, replacing lines such as 'talk dirty to me' in the Jason Derulo hit Talk Dirty, with the less suggestive phrase 'talk jazzy to me.'

Letting their hair down: Zumba has been given a kosher makeover so Orthodox Jewish women can finally join the sexy Latin fitness craze - here 'Jewmba' instructor, Shimrit Adar, (left) shakes some moves

In another case, lyrics in a song about forming a menage-a-trois - 'We could menage-a-three-oh' - became 'We can make a friend in Rio.'

And in Ricki Martin's 'Livin' La Vida Loca' the verse 'She'll make you take your clothes off' now says 'she never drinks the water' in Mrs Adar's version.

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Zumba gets kosher makeover so Hasidic Jewish women can join fitness craze

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