God handed Moses a procurement list for the Tabernacle — down to the dye colors. Then: everyone whose heart is so moved.

There is a man in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, right now — a Jewish attorney from South Florida named Jared Firestone — hurtling face-first down an ice track on a sled the size of a cafeteria tray. He is representing Israel in skeleton at the Winter Olympics. He finished twenty-second out of twenty-four competitors. He is thrilled. Last week, at the opening ceremony in Milan, Firestone carried the Israeli flag while wearing a kippah embroidered with the names of the eleven Israe