tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58898647021271405682024-03-13T08:43:50.335-07:00Galilee Silk Fashion BlogHere we will blog you about our beautiful silk fashion products from our silk studio in beautiful GalileeSilkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-84182824422060153622015-01-16T04:10:00.003-08:002015-01-16T04:11:28.550-08:00Information on Jewish Rituals and Prayers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prayer is a way of expressing life's meaning in words. Human being always find fulfillment in worship that is enriching, participatory, meaningful and joyful. Today, most major religions involve prayer in one way or another. Some ritualize the act of prayer as a strict sequence of action, while others teach that prayer may be practiced spontaneously by anyone at any time. In Jewish religion recitation of prayer is the central characteristic of worship. Prayer is both a devotion and discipline for orthodox Judaism. For Jews, it is a way to access and talk with an all-powerful and omnipresent God.</div>
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Here are few important things about Jewish Prayers</div>
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<li><b>Prayer Schedule:</b> All Jews are supposed to recite three prayers daily and more on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. They have to worship during the morning ("Shacharit"), afternoon (MInchah) and in the evening ("Maariv"). In orthodox services, prayer is followed by a series of readings of their prayer book “Siddur”. There are three different sorts of prayer thanksgiving, prayers of praise, and prayers that ask for things. The most important aspect of these prayers is the "Amidah" meaning "standing", which is a series of 19 blessings. Additionally, Jews also reads excerpt from the Talmud and Hebrew bible throughout a day</li>
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<li><b>Clothing:</b> Jewish men and women wear specific type of clothing when they pray. This includes a <b><a href="http://www.galileesilks.com/category/catalog/tallit/modern-tallit-men">jewish prayer shawl</a></b>, kippah, silk scarves, tefflin, etc. A prayer shawl is a white rectangular piece of fabric, a garment, or cloak that envelopes the wearer both physically and spiritually, in prayer and celebration, in joy and sorrow. A kippah is a type of skull-cap used to cover the head (Orthodox Jewish women keep their heads covered at all times). Teflin is also a type of tallit made up of two small black boxes with strips, that are kept on the head and tied to the arm.</li>
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<li><b>Facing Jerusalem:</b> Synagogues is Jews place of worship. This holiest of cities for Jews is mentioned hundreds of times throughout the Hebrew Bible and believed to be the religion's permanent capital. These have been built traditionally by keeping the direction of Jerusalem in mind. It's mandatory to face the Jerusalem and wear <b><a href="http://www.galileesilks.com/category/catalog/tallit/modern-tallit-men">jewish tallit</a></b>, while worshiping in home or a Synagogue.</li>
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<li><b>Communal Prayer:</b> Judaism encourages group prayer and plays an integral role in building Jewish faith. They prioritized communal prayer in synagogue to make a connection between god and his followers. The Jews pray in a communal voice and use “we” in place of “I”</li>
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These are some of the standardized rituals and schedule of prayers, which orthodox jews needs to follow. All these are prepared to keep the faith alive, that was lost after the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 587/586 B.C.E. Jews believe that God will take action in response to prayer.</div>
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Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-8410653669047075052010-05-28T02:55:00.000-07:002010-12-26T04:18:29.183-08:00Galilee Silks Red Black handpainted silk scarf<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S_-T3oqRAaI/AAAAAAAAAbI/npj2bfb0Pt8/s1600/etsy-treasury2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S_-T3oqRAaI/AAAAAAAAAbI/npj2bfb0Pt8/s400/etsy-treasury2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476258255922594210" border="0" /></a>Galilee Silks fashion was featured in an Etsy Treasury.<br />Thank you so much <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/BucktoothedBunny">BucktoothedBunny</a><h4>Galilee Silks creates beautiful items and silk clothing and silk in combination with other delicate materials. We also make <a href="http://www.galileesilks.com/galilee-silks-judaica-silk-tallit-c-52_34.html">tallit</a>.<br /></h4><br />Our silk fashion line brings you fascinating silk clothing items and accessories in irresistible patterns and colors: silk scarves, silk shirts, T-shirts with silk applique, silk skirts, silk sarongs, handbags, silk necklaces and much, much more.Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-74845097847600968142010-05-16T21:29:00.000-07:002010-05-16T21:34:36.733-07:00In the times of harvest in the Holy Land<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S_DGXqoclPI/AAAAAAAAAa0/WO8byeOH6mU/s1600/biblicalfruitandflowers.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S_DGXqoclPI/AAAAAAAAAa0/WO8byeOH6mU/s400/biblicalfruitandflowers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472091657138377970" border="0" /></a>In our<a href="http://silkgalilee.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=15"> Silk Galilee online shop</a> you'll find many high quality hand painted gifts.<br /><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;">Make your choice from these beautiful </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;">hand painted originals printed as appliques which picture flowers and fruit from the Holy Land with their own Bible quote.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;">The matching shoulder bag and delicate chiffon scarf in various pastel colors make thisunique set a beautiful spiritual addition to your ward robe and gift for your loved ones.</span></p>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-16364683043702869272010-04-28T03:28:00.000-07:002010-04-28T03:35:36.523-07:00Lovely Holy Land Gifts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S9gO44x3yTI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/4my_z53NbJ4/s1600/ns-24.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S9gO44x3yTI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/4my_z53NbJ4/s400/ns-24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465134518291122482" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S9gOqzesIaI/AAAAAAAAAaI/1a_kkcBXKYU/s1600/magnet-pommegranate.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 112px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S9gOqzesIaI/AAAAAAAAAaI/1a_kkcBXKYU/s400/magnet-pommegranate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465134276350321058" border="0" /></a><br /></div>New in our <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/shop/">Silk Galilee online shop</a> are lovely gifts from The Holy Land.<br />Recently added: Holy Land and Bible themed art prints and magnets, Songbooks and music CD's.<br />Now adding Wonderful hand crafted items from genuine native olive wood.<br />Come visit this <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/shop/">Galilee Silks Gift shop</a> we are adding new products all the time!Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-24263631045619316942010-04-18T22:07:00.000-07:002010-04-18T22:15:57.055-07:00Blue & White forever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/e024b47b56d8cb4b9be02f00"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S8vllivfQuI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/s0C1yd2d3PI/s400/etsy-treasury.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461711406260765410" border="0" /></a><br />Created a new <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/e024b47b56d8cb4b9be02f00">Etsy Treasury East in honor of Israel 62th Independance Day</a>. All Blue & White Enjoy!<br />Included is <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/10929909/superior-tallit-with-magen-david-motif">Galilee Silk Judaica Tallit Magen David</a>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-70166111978501644662010-03-18T23:45:00.000-07:002010-03-18T23:45:14.345-07:00Galilee Silk Judaica Blog: Passover Matzo Covers Aficomen Bags<a href="http://galileesilksjudaica.blogspot.com/2009/03/passover-matzo-covers-aficomen-bags.html#links">Galilee Silk Judaica Blog: Passover Matzo Covers Aficomen Bags</a>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-48191744855894442762010-03-04T00:18:00.000-08:002010-03-04T00:21:44.509-08:00More Google Products<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fgalileesilk%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26access%3Dpublic%26psc%3DF%26q%26uname%3Dgalileesilk" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><div><br /></div><div>Thia is nice taking all blog images and insert the Picasa slideshow back in a blog post!</div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-67058503507026990892010-03-03T23:07:00.000-08:002010-03-18T23:58:57.561-07:00The Silk Road of Galilee Silks for unique Judaica & Silk Fashion Creations<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S49eERnDbUI/AAAAAAAAAZU/LjBjbwvNEk0/s1600-h/new+color+20108.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S49eERnDbUI/AAAAAAAAAZU/LjBjbwvNEk0/s400/new+color+20108.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444673902053911874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.galileesilkjudaica.com/"></a><br /><div><i>Some background history about Galilee Silks</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><p style="margin: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;">The </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;">Silk Road</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Gili Matza (Lempel)</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">From an art</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">icle in the </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">At </span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">women’s magazine</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, Israel</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">In two crowded rooms with decaying ceilings that let in the rain in winter a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">t Kibbutz Beit Haemek in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Western Galilee</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, fifteen women </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">work at Formica-topped tables on patterns of women’s silk clothing. But this scene is deceptive. These two less</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">than</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">glamorous rooms house a successful enterprise with an annual sales turnover of NIS 2,000,000 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">which exports to the United States, Norway, Holland and England, and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">one of its products is even owned by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">a member of the Norwegian royal family.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Galilee Silks, the only silk clothing factory in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Israel</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, is not only a profitable branch of the kibbutz but also a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">valued</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> ambassador of Israeli </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">applied </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">art</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. The factory is the life work of one woman, Shlomit Azati, who without the help of PR and celebrity-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">ridden</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> fashion shows but with daring and resolve and the diligence of an industrious silkworm, established a creative enterprise. She was recently awarded a certificate of merit by the Kibbutz Movement Department for the Advancement of Women. One of seven recipients of the framed </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">certificate</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> at</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> a noontime ceremony accompanied by orange juice and marble cake, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Azati </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">opened the door of the Galilee Silks factory outlet, a small room reminiscent of a 1960s </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">bra shop</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The clothes were </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">arranged </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">on hangers </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">additional </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">merchandise </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">in drawers and on shelves, so that it took some time to take in the choice in turquoise, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">maroon </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">and green, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">which aroused the urge to finger them. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">We enthused over the blouses with butterfly or dolphin appliqué </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">on a black background, table runners and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">elaborately crafted</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">table linen</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. The David’s lyre, peace doves, fruits, and Seven Species motifs are aimed at the Reform and Conservative communities that are prepared to spend on raw silk from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">China</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. The </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">designs are reminiscent of the work of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">M</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">askit, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">the leading Israeli art </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">chain </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">in the 1970s. After questioning Azati it transpires that she had business </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">dealings</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> with Maskit: “We supplied them with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">open tops</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> and scarves until they went bankrupt.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The products are handmade in several stages by immigrant women from the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">former </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Soviet Union</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, women members of the kibbutz, and Arab women from the neighboring villages.</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">In the two abovementioned rooms the silk is hand painted in accordance with the exemplar prepared by designer Hadara Zaks, a graduate of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Oranim</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Academic</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">College</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. Azati </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">oversees</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">the whole operation that includes a great deal of logistics: ordering the raw material, production, marketing, deliveries and payment collection. Approximately two thirds of the factory’s sales, which was established in 1992, come from export to American Jewish communities and stores in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Norway</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Holland</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> and the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">UK</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The New York Jewish Museum has </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">challah</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> covers and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">tallitot </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">made at the Galilean factory. The</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> enterprise</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">is</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> gaining a reputation in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Israel</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> too: the factory made 1,500 ties for Bank Leumi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> 800 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">matza </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">covers for Israel Military Industries</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> and 700 orange</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">-colored </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">scarves for Mizrahi Bank</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. The </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Israel</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Museum</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> is also a customer, and recently, to mark the opening of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Ben-Gurion</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">International</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Airport</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">’s new terminal, 2,400 blue scarves purchased by the Israel Airports Authority were distributed.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Giving From a Happy Place</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Azati, 51, is a former nurse who ran the kibbutz clinic. Exactly ten years ago her mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away six months later. “</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">As an only child the need to cope with my mother’s illness intensified my </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">lust for life and the need for moral stocktaking,” she says. “I was filled with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">mental strength that drove me to seek a dramatic </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">change</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. My mother’s </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">decline and passing</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> made me realize that I didn’t want to work with sickness any longer. I wanted to give from a happier, more creative and artistic place.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“Together with my work in the clinic and visiting my mother in hospital, I traveled to Tel Aviv every week where I attended Batya Uziel’s handicrafts class. I was </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">attracted to the softness</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> and beauty of silk and began making brooches and earrings</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, which are in stock to this day. I went to stores and bazaars by bus, carrying a huge backpack. I had four children and viewed silk as the fifth. The living room of my apartment, which is only 66 square meters in area and is home to six people, became my studio and I kept the boxes under the couch. After long and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">grueling</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> negotiation, I was allocated </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">NIS</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> 200 to buy raw material. At first I worked on a voluntary basis. When the kibbutz economic coordinator showed me a survey showing that all the small kibbutz businesses based on art had failed, his message was clear.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">When did you realize that you were on the way to a business</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“A woman who did embroidery and had this vision of a building that would house art workshops in various spheres, pushed me into sharing a room with her. Some time later she </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">left the scene, the room became two, and that’s where the factory is today. I gradually brought in other women kibbutz members who were looking for a place to work. While I was sitting </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">shiva </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">for my mother I received an order for 300 scarves from the Gras chain, so together with my deep bereavement a reason to continue creating was born, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">along with</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> the ability to make a living.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Where do the business acumen and the motivation to make money in a communal society come from</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“Back when there really was equality in the kibbutz, it wasn’t clear to me where it came from. When I was in the Noar Ha</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">O</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">ved youth mov</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">ement I was the treasurer, I loved</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> calculating and organizing. I took various courses on business entrepreneurship. If you’re asking me to delve really deeply, it could be that the motivation stemmed from the need to be meaningful and make my dream come true.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">But time did its work and the credits gradually mounted up. A member of the Norwegian royal family bought a tunic through a sales representative in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Oslo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">; the commanding officer of the Indian Artillery Corps, who was </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">in</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Israel</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">on</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> an official </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">visit</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, also became a customer. “He bought a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">howitzer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> from the Ministry of Defense and a scarf for his wife from us. He came along and homed in on a small scarf,” Azati relates.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">An Existential Crisis</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Azati’s most complex </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">challenge </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">came with the outbreak of the second </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">intifada</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, when she had to let half of her workforce go. “In October tourism dried up, which included the pilgrims on which our business was based. All at once everything fell apart. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">S</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">ouvenir shops, which were our main customers, either closed down or returned merchandise, I was left with big stocks and 20 employees I didn’t have the money to pay. I was in an existential crisis. I took out a loan from the kibbutz and at the same time presented it with a recovery plan. I was forced to send people home, people who found it hard to find alternative work.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">How do you live with a decision like that</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“I didn’t sleep at night and the days were dark with distress. Some of the women I had to let go were kibbutz members I see every day in the dining room. I took it personally.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">How long did it take to get your head back above </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">water</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“I began looking for new markets. By chance the opportunity of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">attending</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> a gift exhibition in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">New York</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, the biggest of its kind in the world, presented itself. Within a week </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">our designer Hadara</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> developed a line of modern </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">tallitot </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">for women, men and bar-mitzvah children. I took a stock of 20 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">tallitot </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">with me. I didn’t have an official stand, so I went to a bathroom accessory store and bought hangers and rails, which proved to be a successful improvisation. I came back from the exhibition with 10,000 dollars worth of orders. Within a year we developed a line of Judaica products, including some </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">magnificent</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> wedding canopies that were an upgrade of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">tallitot</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. Since then, I’ve been going to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">New York</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">regularly </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">to show </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">our merchandise </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">at the exhibition.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Who helped you </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">with</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> export</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“I tried to forge export ties with every volunteer that came to the kibbutz, and it was through one such </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">person</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> that we got to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Norway</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">. We got to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Holland</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, for instance, through a relative of a kibbutz member who established contact for us with the leading catalog company for Israeli products. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The Fund for the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Promotion of Overseas Marketing, the Israel Export Institute and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor all helped me in my fight to convince the kibbutz economic committee that I needed help in exporting. A</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">n</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">entire</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">delegation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> from the Export Institute came to the kibbutz to persuade them that the factory had potential.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">But the difficulties weren’t over and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Azati was hit by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">a further crisis. “About three years ago the entire collection ordered by the Dutch catalog company, valued at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">NIS</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> 60,000, was stolen. I reported the theft to the police and informed the client that we would be unable to meet their order. Fortunately, half of the stolen merchandise was found in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">a market in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Raml</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Why is it that people in this country aren’t familiar with your merchandise</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">“</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Because it’s too</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> expensive for the local market. It costs</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> 200-300 dollars per item of clothing or </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">tallit</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, and 500 dollars for a wedding canopy. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">They’re unsuitable for women looking for </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">form</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">-fitting clothes. Silk is a flowing material that’s </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">more </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">suitable for relatively fuller figures, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">which women of 40-plus </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">can </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">connect.”</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">To see the Galilee Silks selection, go to </span></span><a href="http://www.galileesilks.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:'Times New Roman';" ><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">www.galileesilks.com</span></u></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">, <a href="http://www.galileesilkjudaica.com/">www.galileesilkjudaica.com</a> <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/">, www.galileesilkfashion.com</a> take a trip to the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Galilee</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">.</span></span></p></span></div></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-10018157107358181902010-03-03T22:14:00.000-08:002010-03-03T22:17:54.496-08:00Silk Jerusalem Scarves, Handpainted Prayer shawls by Galilee Silks, Israel from the Holy Land with online Gift Shop<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S49QCPAIGsI/AAAAAAAAAZI/njeExeeC2nY/s1600-h/salesbanner.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 227px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S49QCPAIGsI/AAAAAAAAAZI/njeExeeC2nY/s400/salesbanner.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444658473831242434" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S49P7K7vQVI/AAAAAAAAAZA/iFczK3794XI/s1600-h/salesbanner-christian.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S49P7K7vQVI/AAAAAAAAAZA/iFczK3794XI/s400/salesbanner-christian.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444658352480010578" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html">Silk Jerusalem Scarves, Handpainted Prayer shawls by Galilee Silks, Israel from the Holy Land with online Gift Shop</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(25, 25, 112); "><h4 style="background-color: transparent; max-width: 100%; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 130); font-size: 14px; ">Galilee Silks creates beautiful items and garments from silk and silk in combination with other decorative fabrics for special shine and touch to holidays and events.</h4><br /><a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#prayer" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; "><b>Galilee Silks Holy Land prayer shawls</b></a> carry symbolic names from the Bible: <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#link1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">The Heavens</a>, <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#link2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">River of Life</a>, <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#link3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">Lion of Judah</a>, <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#link4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">Kingdom of God</a>, <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#link5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">Holiness</a>, and <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#link6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">Spirit of Fire.</a><br />Galilee Silks finest quality<a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#shirts" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; "><b> T-shirts</b></a> are decorated with symbols from the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Biblical themes.<br />Our collection of <a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/index.html#scarfs" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; "><b>silk scarves</b></a> radiate the vibrant colors and spirituality of the Holy City of Jerusalem.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(25, 25, 112); "><i><h4 style="background-color: transparent; max-width: 100%; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 130); font-size: 14px; ">Now we can offer our creations through Galilee Silks online store. Just click the "<a href="http://www.silkgalilee.com/shop/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">Online Store</a>" link for the menu or the "Buy Now" button besides or below the products and you will be taken right there.</h4></i><h3 style="background-color: transparent; max-width: 100%; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(64, 0, 128); font-size: 16px; ">NEW in our Shop:<a href="http://silkgalilee.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: none; ">Lovely Hand Painted Pure Silk Scarflette, the perfect gift for the Holiday Season!</a></h3><a href="http://silkgalilee.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; "><h2 style="background-color: transparent; max-width: 100%; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(85, 107, 47); font-size: 20px; ">Only $9.99!!</h2>Check out the Silk Scarves section!</a></span></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-35465156408737007002010-02-24T04:07:00.000-08:002010-02-24T04:13:26.015-08:00New in Silk Galilee Christian Worship flags<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S4UXR_ciqYI/AAAAAAAAAYY/rGq_J1KNXX8/s1600-h/F1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S4UXR_ciqYI/AAAAAAAAAYY/rGq_J1KNXX8/s400/F1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441781322603473282" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div id="indexDefaultMainContent" class="content"><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b><br />In Galilee Silks store specially created to serve our Christian customers: </b></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><b></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Christian worship Flags </span></span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; ">In our shop you'll find beautiful items and garments from silk and silk in combination with other decorative fabrics which will add special shine and touch to your holidays and events. T-shirts, Scarves and Tote Bags decorated with Flowers and Fruits from the Land of Israel, Christian Worship flags</p><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#6600FF;">NOW ON SALE:</span> <b>Galilee Silks Prayer Shawls</b> carrying symbolic names from the Bible: The Heavens, River of Life, Lion of Judah, Kingdom of God, Holiness, and Spirit of Fire.</p><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; ">You'll find the finest quality T-shirts decorated with beautiful Biblical and Land of Israel symbols and a collection of silk scarves radiating the vibrant colors and spirituality of the Holy City of Jerusalem.</p><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; ">If you cannot find what you are looking for: Please visit our our additional online stores with Judaica gifts and handpainted Silk fashion :</p><p style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; "><a href="http://www.galileesilkjudaica.com/shop/" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 255); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.galileesilkjudaica.com/shop/</a> <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 255); text-decoration: none; "> http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/</a></p></div></span>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-81717179757958132352010-02-16T02:25:00.000-08:002010-02-16T02:34:46.306-08:00Galilee Silks Scarflette to a soothing purpose<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#6600CC;">See how Galilee Silks comes in use in the follow up [alternative]treatment of a burned wrist: Just tie a </span></span><a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#6600CC;">Galilee Silks scarflette</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#6600CC;"> around the spot (not on open wounds!!). It feels real soothing and gives a much prettier wrist to look at!</span></span><br /><a href="http://twitpic.com/13k5ug" title="My poor burned wrist under Galilee Silk on Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/13k5ug.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="My poor burned wrist under Galilee Silk on Twitpic" /></a>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-31141678502757887242010-01-29T00:33:00.001-08:002010-01-29T00:51:57.593-08:00New Galilee Silks MovieWelcome to our new movie! Also on the <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/">Galilee Silks Fashion home page</a> you can view our new movie, showing some of our work and living surroundings. Also you'll get to know the faces of the creators of Galilee Silks.<br />See you there & do not forget to stop by in our <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/">shops</a>!<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WQqDr9m35F0&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WQqDr9m35F0&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-49012950813753925162010-01-24T07:18:00.000-08:002010-01-24T07:30:03.839-08:00A silk scarf is still a "must" during winter<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S1xk1X20_wI/AAAAAAAAAUc/AE-UWYqis9E/s1600-h/3+018.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430326118801800962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S1xk1X20_wI/AAAAAAAAAUc/AE-UWYqis9E/s320/3+018.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>A silk scarf is still a "must" fashion statement during the cold winter months. </p><p>Wool scarves are important for outdoors -- but indoors is the place for silk during the winter!</p><p><a href="http://www.fashion.galileesilks.com/">Galilee silks</a> has many different silk scarves. <a href="http://www.fashion.galileesilks.com/">Galilee silks</a> has has many different silk scarves in many different colors!</p><p>You don't want to get sick during the winter. Yet, you want to look fashionable. <a href="http://www.fashion.galileesilks.com/">Galilee silks </a>will keep you warm and fashionable this winter.</p><p>Our <a href="http://www.fashion.galileesilks.com/">website</a> contains all the silk scarves you will need this winter to stay in style. Our silk scarves can also be worn in the spring and summer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-28371130967860813512010-01-12T22:50:00.000-08:002010-01-12T23:05:39.086-08:00Turtleneck accents for winter<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S01tbUGU1oI/AAAAAAAAATo/QYrK9cnaJRs/s1600-h/N73.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426113442070451842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S01tbUGU1oI/AAAAAAAAATo/QYrK9cnaJRs/s320/N73.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Turtle neck sweaters and sweaters are nice to start the winter cold months. But, as the winter continues -- it's nice to "jazz up" your turtle neck sweater with a necklace.<br /><br />Silk necklaces from Galilee Silks can add joy to the continuing cold winter months by "spicing up" your wardrobe.<br /><br />Silk necklaces from <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/">www.Galileesilkfashion.com</a> are perfect for the office work week. Gold and silver necklaces can be too fancy for the office. A silk necklace is a perfect fashion accent for the middle of the work week.<br /><br />Leave your gold or silver necklace for special occasions. Silk necklaces add variation to your necklace collection.<br /><br />Silk necklaces are perfect for casual weekend parties, too -- jeans, a turtleneck sweater and a silk necklace from <a href="http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5&zenid=3fb4476df394b68645b666cec67f7582">http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5&zenid=3fb4476df394b68645b666cec67f7582</a><br /><br />Silk and silk necklaces remind me of ice skating. Silk is like snow or ice without the cold. Silk reminds me of skating and gliding on ice smoothly. A silk scarf and a silk necklace from <a href="http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5&zenid=3fb4476df394b68645b666cec67f7582">http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5&zenid=3fb4476df394b68645b666cec67f7582</a> swooshing on ice is a beautiful sight!<br /><br />We have lots of other silky fashion items at our website: <a href="http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5&zenid=3fb4476df394b68645b666cec67f7582">http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5&zenid=3fb4476df394b68645b666cec67f7582</a>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-70768143365514572812010-01-03T02:17:00.000-08:002010-01-03T02:50:20.145-08:00Indoor during the cold months<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S0B2UbXMMfI/AAAAAAAAATI/l-KYJkN9RGc/s1600-h/3+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422464044668563954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S0B2UbXMMfI/AAAAAAAAATI/l-KYJkN9RGc/s320/3+002.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S0B2IQOJYrI/AAAAAAAAATA/CpwSfez6hBA/s1600-h/N80.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422463835519410866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 298px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S0B2IQOJYrI/AAAAAAAAATA/CpwSfez6hBA/s320/N80.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>During the cold winter months we are indoors. We entertain more indoors. Even if it is with our own family.<br /><br />Keeping winter cheer takes the form of reading a good book. Soup. Feeling snug under the covers and having a good dream.<br /><br />Keeping winter cheer can also mean adding a fashionable silk item to your wardrobe with <a href="http://www.galileesilks.com/">http://www.galileesilks.com/</a>. A silk scarf for the office, a silk scarflet accent during the evening home with your family, a silk poncho for a weekend party, a long silk jacket for a special wedding invitation, a silk string necklace that people notice, hand painted silk, or a silk present for someone special.<br /><br />Silk fashion spices up almost any outfit. Silk fashion spices up almost any occasion -- anniversary, birthday, or wedding.<br /><br />Spice up your wardrobe with silk from <a href="http://galileesilks.com/">http://galileesilks.com/</a></div></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-6077686498270286132009-12-27T03:42:00.000-08:002010-01-29T01:12:57.261-08:00Winter Wishes<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S2KmbFp4J_I/AAAAAAAAAUk/c_-8gMNVtq0/s1600-h/Ilona_025.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432087084866742258" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 263px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/S2KmbFp4J_I/AAAAAAAAAUk/c_-8gMNVtq0/s400/Ilona_025.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Snow, snow, and more snow.<br /><br />Cold, colder, and coldest.<br /><br />Jackets, sweaters, wool socks, and ski hats.<br /><br />The end of December with January and February still to come.<br />Keeping warm this winter is the job of a new scarf.<br /><br />A new silk scarf from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/">Galilee Silks</a>.<br /><br />We recommend our unique Hand painted silk garments for your indoor parties, dining out, theater, cinema, New Year, and going out.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-52005947493313841602009-12-20T02:39:00.000-08:002009-12-20T03:25:40.884-08:00It's cold outside<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Sy4CrN_DuaI/AAAAAAAAASA/H4BQTRgE8V0/s1600-h/DSC_0575.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417270343285062050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Sy4CrN_DuaI/AAAAAAAAASA/H4BQTRgE8V0/s320/DSC_0575.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Winter is here. The recent snow storm yielded much more snow than I expected. The snow piles are beautiful. The snow piles are scary. It's cold outside, too.</div><br /><div></div><div>It's time to be indoors enjoying family and friends.</div><br /><div></div><div>Staying <strong><em>warm</em></strong> indoors is important. Especially staying warm around your neck area.</div><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://galileesilkjudaica.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7">Galilee silk scarves </a>are warm additions to your winter indoor wardrobe. </div><div></div><div>Silk is warm but not coarse like wool. Silk feels pleasant on the skin.</div><div> </div><div></div><div>Painted silks from <a href="http://galileesilks.com/">Galilee silks </a>contain beautiful pictures unlike linear wool designs. See our four fashionable silk scarves for winter in our <a href="http://galileesilkjudaica.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7">catalog</a>.</div><div> </div><div></div><div>Silk scarves are always a talking point at parties or family get togethers.</div><div> </div><div>Buy a hand painted Jerusalem silk scarf from <a href="http://galileesilks.com/">Galilee silks </a>today! Buy a silk scarf for a friend. Buy a silk scarf for a loved one.</div><div> </div><div></div><div>We would love to see you in our <a href="http://galaleesilkjudaica.com/">store</a>!</div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-70477316390454775722009-12-14T10:17:00.000-08:002009-12-14T10:28:08.611-08:00Happy Hanukkah<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SyaCVTDuWQI/AAAAAAAAARg/s0CVqNC6rj0/s1600-h/10034Poncho7.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415158904364357890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SyaCVTDuWQI/AAAAAAAAARg/s0CVqNC6rj0/s320/10034Poncho7.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>From us here at Galilee Silks we wish you a Happy Hanukkah! Also the coming year we like to bring a lot of nice handpainted silk items to our friends and customers world wide!</div><br /><div>Here in Galilee we have lately been blessed with a lot of rain...a rain poncho would have been a good item to have right now...but we create only the beautiful silk ponchos which are such a nice and fancy addition for the seasonal holidays. <a href="http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=7">Look at this purple silk poncho</a>, it will make you stand out wherever you go.....</div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-79755374235865686942009-11-08T04:28:00.000-08:002009-11-08T05:07:45.357-08:00New Great Gift : handpainted silk scarflette<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Sva6sa6nexI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/6CNQs6ACoAc/s1600-h/scarflette.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401710075379677970" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Sva6sa6nexI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/6CNQs6ACoAc/s320/scarflette.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=69">The pricing of this colorful handpainted silk scarflette</a> by Galilee Silks is so attractive that it make a beautiful gift if you are looking for something unique and special and does not cost you an arm and a leg.<br />Not to mention that the silk scarflette complements your outfit may it be casual or official. Look at the picture for ideas how it may be used, around your neck or as a hairband.Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-86367215090597214112009-10-24T22:14:00.000-07:002009-10-24T22:28:15.894-07:00T-shirts with matching silk vest<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SuPhPXLftJI/AAAAAAAAAQw/5Sk8mDTZVdc/s1600-h/DSC_0248.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396404432556504210" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SuPhPXLftJI/AAAAAAAAAQw/5Sk8mDTZVdc/s320/DSC_0248.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/">Galilee Silks T-shirts with matching silk vests</a> make a wonderful addition to your ward robe. T-shirts are decorated with pure silk hand painted appliques with themes inspired by our surroundings - beautiful Galilee and Israel. T-shirsts can beordered in black or offwhite and come in sizes from small to extra large.</div><br /><br /><div>Come have a look on one of the <a href="http://www.galileesilks.com/">Galilee Silks websites</a>. There you can download our catalog, see more of ourSilk Fashion creations and visit our <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/">online shops</a>.</div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SuPg5pmKIAI/AAAAAAAAAQo/DGDum1DHrgo/s1600-h/galileesilks300x250.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396404059543052290" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SuPg5pmKIAI/AAAAAAAAAQo/DGDum1DHrgo/s320/galileesilks300x250.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-2732660229210386252009-10-13T02:08:00.000-07:002009-10-13T02:19:25.929-07:00Silk Poncho perfect for Fall<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/StRGFa_v6SI/AAAAAAAAAQg/-xMpAPiGWxQ/s1600-h/Resize+of+P1010626.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392011712829319458" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/StRGFa_v6SI/AAAAAAAAAQg/-xMpAPiGWxQ/s320/Resize+of+P1010626.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Silk Ponchos by Galilee Silks are the perfect clothing item for the fall season. Nicely completing any special occasion outfit, they are also a very practical addition to your wardrobe. The natural abbility of silk to warm or to cool make Galilee Silks pure silk ponchos the perfect clothing item for fall.<br /><br />Come check out our <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4">silk fashion shop</a> where you fine a variety of <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4">delightful ponchos </a>- if you do not find what you are looking for: customized orders are welcome just email us from the store page!</div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-37869706359035161322009-09-21T01:11:00.000-07:002009-09-21T01:22:57.668-07:00Silk scarf for every season<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Src3RpvVTvI/AAAAAAAAAQM/ke2j7xmZcR4/s1600-h/redbrown2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383832655946403570" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Src3RpvVTvI/AAAAAAAAAQM/ke2j7xmZcR4/s320/redbrown2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Galilee Silk Scarves come in a variety of colors and sizes. From a very narrow scarflette to a generous sized sarong.</div><br /><div>With fall arriving in the Western hemispere some might like the autumn like color combinations shades of gold, brown, and green which due to our special paint techniques flow together in their intuitive natural patterns. </div><div> </div><div>Others might just like for the darker seasons the virbrant sparkling combinations with hot pink and electric blues!</div><br /><div>Come visit <a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/">Galilee Silks Fashion</a> web site to get a good impression and maybe you find there the original present you have been looking for, do your holiday shopping early... start now. </div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-75388258561056793412009-08-23T22:00:00.000-07:002009-08-23T22:07:01.759-07:00Silk Coat Featured on Etsy treasury<a href="http://galileesilks.etsy.com/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 268px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373391718111917922" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/SpIfTFUWN2I/AAAAAAAAAP8/yXPsggzHsA8/s400/treasury-fashion-22.8.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/">Galilee Silks</a> lovely silk coat has been featured on a <a href="http://galileesilks.etsy.com/">Etsy</a> Treasury. </div><br /><div>Etsy is a huge worldwide community portal with shops for arts and crafts. We are very proud to show our lovely handmade silk fashion. Come have a look in our online <a href="http://galileesilks.etsy.com/">Etsy shop</a>!</div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-37332821734915227762009-08-06T21:54:00.000-07:002009-08-06T22:16:54.377-07:00New Silk Scarves Color Combinations<a href="http://www.galileesilkfashion.com/shop/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 272px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367086262540092450" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Snu4hQ2UxCI/AAAAAAAAAPs/ICTUhulxwxg/s400/silkscarves-colorchart.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Galilee Silks added gorgeous new color combinations for the silk scarf collection. </div><br /><br /><div>A deep dark grey which through our silk painting techniqus fades to shades of green, cherry red, hot pink, a soft purple in combination with blues and greens. The combinations are delicate and flowing. They will compliment any garment in yur ward robe for any occasion.</div><br /><br /><br /><div>Soon available as choice in our online silk fashion store!</div><br /><div></div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889864702127140568.post-78381966761675355992009-07-13T22:35:00.000-07:002009-07-13T22:44:27.978-07:00Cool or warming fibers<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Slwa9jZyS3I/AAAAAAAAAPU/o7rJS544cgQ/s1600-h/skirt-b3003.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358187301441784690" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UEcGsDeVo98/Slwa9jZyS3I/AAAAAAAAAPU/o7rJS544cgQ/s320/skirt-b3003.jpg" /></a><br /><div>These are the advantages of wearing silk. Cool in summer and warming in winter, in short: great for every season!</div><br /><div>The natural fibers have an adjusting ability to make it THE perfect wear. </div><br /><div>Galilee Silks silk fashion wearables are comfy and elegant at the same time. You will stand out at every occasion with our feather light fashion in special vibrant colors. Check out Galilee Silks fashion <a href="http://galileesilkfashion.com/shop/">shops</a> for the latest..</div>Silkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374095120823632642noreply@blogger.com0