Adding hues and colors to your life The Editor The Ashes of the Red Heifer: From pagan to priestly practice (and doing it because it says so) Jerome Malino Tekhelet: color of the sea, the sky, and the throne of glory: The famous blue dye used for the fringes of the tallit The kaleidoscope of human emotion: Hebrew expressions which put color in our cheeks Earth's embroidery: a medieval poem: How the rains of autumn paint the earth with colors Solomon Ibn Gabirol Judas' red hair and the Jews: Antipathy to red hair: so simple, yet so complicated Ruth Mellinkoff Burying the dead in simple white shrouds: The history and meaning behind the traditional use of tahrihim Anita Diamant Blue and white: where it all began: The evolution of the Israeli flag A Hebrew lesson: Rootword z-v-a: Painters, pigment and hypocrisy