Tablet contributor Lucette Lagnado, who is currently working on a book for the Nextbook Press Jewish encounters series, reports on a hip-hoppin’ new trend: Orthodox Jewish women doing Zumba, the high-energy dance fitness craze sweeping gyms across the country. “With lives guided by Do’s and Don’ts, few of these women are Livin’ La Vida Loca, she writes in the Wall Street Journal, “though in class they do at least get to dance to it.”
The classes are women-only, and inappropriate lyrics are painstakingly edited out of the pop and hip hop songs played (Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty” is a favorite). Still, some rabbis aren’t exactly thrilled with the gyrating dance trend, which they argue violate Jewish modesty principles.
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