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Return of the Red String
Thursday August 16, 2007

Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie at the 14th Annual Race to Erase MS themed "Dance to Erase MS" in Century City, CA. April 14, 2007.
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Celebs are seeing red again!

Nicole Richie and High School Musical star Zac Efron are among several stars like Lauren Conrad who have recently been spotted sporting crimson-colored bracelets that look a lot like the red kabbalah string Madonna made famous a few years ago.

So is the trend making a comeback?

Richie’s and Conrad’s strings each have a charm of a hand on them called a “hamsa,” explains Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of TLC’s Shalom in the Home.

“It’s a kabbalistic symbol. Wearing it is meant to bring down God’s mercy and kindness.”

But a rep for Efron, 19 (who’s girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens, 18 also wears one), tells Us his bracelet “is not a kabbalah string. “There’s no religious meaning to it.”

For more details on all your favorite Hollywood trends, check out the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.

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