The history of the Jewish people is a chronicle of endeavor –- the endeavor for purpose, the endeavor to perfect the world. So concludes the daily liturgy with what might rightly be called our mission ...

Forty-nine times the Bible mentions a perfect, pure blue, a color so magnificent and transcendent that it was all but impossible to describe. Yet, for most of the last 2,000 years, nobody has known ...

For over a thousand years, the source of Biblical “tekhelet” was unknown, and we were unable to dye the fringes of our tzitzit with the special dye. Recently, however, this practice has been renewed ...

That was the downfall of tekhelet, Sterman explains. But for Jews, tekhelet was much more than a fashion statement. “While Roman kings and princes all wore tekhelet, when the Torah says, ‘Put it on ...

The Jewish commandment to tie tzitzit (fringes) to four-cornered garments, as a reminder of all the commandments, includes the precept to tie a thread dyed "tekhelet," a shade of sky-blue. The secret ...

A 2,000-year old textile containing a mysterious blue dye described in the Bible has been uncovered in Israel. The cloth, which displays one of the few remnants of the ancient colour ever found, was ...

Ptil Tekhelet sells tzitzit, or fringes attached to the corners of Jewish prayer shawls, colored with dye from the Murex trunculus snail Courtesy of Ptil Tekhelet/Moshe Caine Thousands of years ago, ...

It was the color of the sea, the sky, the divine sapphire-hewn Throne of Glory, according to the Tannaite sage Rabbi Meir. It was a color used in the Jewish temples, the hue of its high priests’ robes ...

Some 50 years ago, a young Bnei Akiva couple on a Misrad haKesher mission to the refuseniks in the Soviet Union smuggled out the words to the song שלי הצבע זה ולבן כחול (Blue and white is my colour), ...

Ptil Tekhelet is running its first ever fundraising campaign. The Jewish Press took this opportunity to speak with the CEO, Dr. Baruch Sterman to learn what Ptil Tekhelet is all about and why they are ...