Techelet
Passing on Jewish Tradition Via a Blue String
When Josie Glausiusz’s father wove a rare blue thread into her tallit, she became an unlikely feminist follower of a practice revived in Poland in the late 19th century.
My Search for the Perfect Biblical Blue
Fountain pen collector Jeffrey Salkin has spent years obsessively hunting for the perfect blue ink. Is it really a modern version of Judaism’s centuries-old search for the biblical tekhelet?