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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.Through the millennia Jews have created vital, supportive communities in myriad unlikely locations. So it was not surprising that Tiffany Somerset Bangle I wandered into the three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual world called Second Life, I found not only Second Life Synagogue, but a virtual "mitzvah mobile" already parked around the corner.Second Life allows users to fall through their computer screens into a richly rendered world where they can interact with objects and other people in a surprisingly fluid and natural way through the mediation of an avatar - a virtual representation of oneself.

It's a varied environment with many of the same charms and opportunities, temptations and pitfalls, as real life. When first entering Second Life, some avatars simply enjoy the scenery, visiting virtual Elsa Peretti Double Open Heart bangle and museums like tourists anywhere. Others spend their first weeks shopping to upgrade their avatar's wardrobe and appearance. Some head directly for the sex clubs, where they spend their "second lives" in an orgy of virtual sex.The more fanciful might recreate themselves as small furry beings or fairies. But most people, interestingly, fashion second Elsa Peretti Open Heart bracelet not terribly dissimilar from their real-life identities: The politically active join groups that promote real-life causes; the socially conscious work for sustainable energy or accessible healthcare; sailors join sailing clubs; actors find theaters; and nice Jewish girls do what they always do when they move to a new neighborhood. Join a synagogue.

I joined Second Life Synagogue in September 2008, just after the High Holy Days. Membership was free and no one hit me up for a contribution to the building fund, although there was an impressive structure that I imagined had been built and paid for by someone. I later learned that Second Life buildings cost almost nothing, but virtual land can be expensive, and, as in real life, Discount Tiffany Watches is no avoiding taxes. The latter are called "tiers" in SL, and they're payable to Linden Labs, the real-life company in San Francisco that keeps all the invisible cogs and levers moving. Tiers are payable in "lindens," the Second Life currency which trades for reallife U.S. dollars (as well as euros, yen or pounds) at the current exchange rate of 245 lindens to the U.S. dollar. I discovered that the monthly tier for the virtual land where the synagogue sits (as well as the community acreage around it, harboring such structures as, for example, seasonal sukkahs in a courtyard) is $195 U.S. dollars.