A ner tamid, or eternal light, burns above the ark and two giant candelabras with crayoncolored candles stand to either side. The wall behind the ark appears to be made from iridescent glass that permits a muted view of trees swaying in the courtyard.Beth listed the synagogue as a Second Life location, advertising its existence to all SL residents. (In other words, if a person went into "search" and typed the word "Jewish" or "synagogue," a photo of the new synagogue would appear along with an offer to teleport the resident to its location.) Tiffany 1837 on sale realizing it, she'd created the first Jewish content in Second Life. It took only two days tor a nascent Jewish community to begin coalescing around the new structure. Curious avatars, soon dubbed "Javatars,"
began wandering in from Great Britain, South Africa, Australia, Israel, Germany, Argentina, Spain, and every time zone in the US. Beth welcomed the newcomers, showed them around, answered questions, Paloma Picasso on sale soon knew many of their real-life names and stories. Beth's openness about her own real life, combined with her non-judgmental attitude and excellent listening skills honed by her real-life training as a social worker, invites people to share information with her that is usually kept secret in Second Life.I interviewed some of SL Synagogue's 1,123 Elsa Peretti on sale members for this article and found out a little about their real lives.There's Chaim Teichman (in Second Life, we only use avatar names) who grew up knowing he was Jewish, but with no understanding of what that meant.
Fifteen members of Chaim's family were lost in the Holocaust, leaving deep scars on the family psyche. Chaim's father moved his family to a small town in upstate New York with no viable Jewish institutions and threatened to disown his children if they ever became religious. Chaim, a college student, snuck into SL Synagogue behind his father's back, more furtively than if he'd been perusing Tiffany Notes tag bracelet sites.Namav Abramovitz is a little older, in his mid-twenties. He's been wheelchair-bound and hooked to a respirator for the past 10 years, a victim of mitochondria! myopathy. He attended university where he earned a B.A. in creative writing, but he's home now, in Mobile, Alabama, and isolated from other young adults.
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