The owner of an online Judaica store adds his voice to a growing chorus saying that Kabbalah’s red string has been misunderstood and oversold. NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (JTA) — The owner of an online ...

Well, not exactly. But add up the references to red string, Madonna, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, expensive holy water and you can put it all together.

The website MyJewishLearning.com notes that “wearing a red string bracelet to ward off evil is not a practice deeply rooted in Jewish text and tradition, but it seems to have struck a chord in ...

Band-Aids were once designed with a red string to make it easier to open (pictured). The design was altered in 1992 and replaced with a new tear-apart design that remains today ...