Israelcraft, The Tallit Shop, was an online shop from 2000 to 2018, specializing in silk-painted prayer shawls from Israel on the theme of the weekly Biblical portions of the Old Testament.
The idea was Marilyn Jackler’s, an American, born in California, who moved to Israel in her twenties, where she married, raised a family, and lives today.
The Israelcraft, The Tallit Shop website closed online in 2018.
Israelcraft has recently reinvented itself; offering, for noncommercial use, for free download; the template line designs used to make silk paintings of Biblical subjects during the years that Israelcraft, The Tallit Shop was active.
In the summer of 2023, I restarted israelcraft.com. For a few years, the only page on the website was A Free Tallit (prayer shawl).
https://israelcraft.com/afreetallit/
Now I have available Galleries of Tallitot (Prayer Shawls) of the weekly portions of the Five Books of the Old Testament, as well as This Week’s Old Testament Portion Archive, which is a compilation of Israelcraft’s featured weekly Old Testament Portions.
Free Biblical Illustrations of the weekly portions of the Five Books of the Old Testament are also available, as well as illustrations of:
Women of the Bible
Kings and Men of the Bible
Passover
Book of Esther
Book of Ruth
Judaica
And the Kid’s Corner, is, by default, for the moment, in Biblical Illustrations; and offers illustrations for coloring, that can also be made into birthday cards.
https://israelcraft.com/kids-corner/
In May and June of 2025, I posted articles to israelcraft.com/blog/ related to Biblical Archeology; one on Ancient Techelet (blue dye) Production in Shikmona, Haifa, Israel:
https://israelcraft.com/2025/05/23/ancient-site-techelet/
and a second about the Canaanite Gate and Fortress at Ashkelon National Park.
https://israelcraft.com/2025/06/22/the-ashkelon-canaanite-city-gate/
In July 2025, for my niece Judith’s birthday, I posted an article about the similar Biblical stories of Judith and Yael.
https://israelcraft.com/2025/07/06/biblical-names-yael-and-judith/
Then in December 2025, I posted My Road to Israel.
https//israelcraft.com/2025/12/10/my-road-to-israel/
For four years, off and on, I had been working on a story, Stubbytail, which was stalled. I finally finished it for my brother’s birthday in July 2026.
https://israelcraft.com/2025/07/13/stubbytail/
Since then I have posted Chapters of Stubbytail 2 as they are completed.
In September, I finished editing, and posted a book my father, who was an economist and forensic statistician, wrote about Inflation in 1980. https://israelcraft.com/2026/09/22/inflation/
I have loved writing all my life, and kept everything I wrote. A week ago, I digitalized it all and found some stories I don’t even remember writing. One of those, my latest post, is Her First, and Last, Mouse which I wrote around 1988.
https://israelcraft.com/2026/09/24/10634/
Presently I am translating Stubbytail into Hebrew.
Thank you for visiting Israelcraft. Please come anytime you would like to know about the Testament Portion of the Week, or just to look around, or have a read, or to download illustrations.
It is my pleasure to serve you.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Jackler
September 28, 2026
