Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Thank you to my wonderful children and to Hashem for all his mercy.  (Credit Photo: Minna Blumenthal)

  Beautiful July 4th. The great outdoors with the family.  Hiking and sitting by the water just taking a relaxing breather.   Grateful for I...

Why do flowers and bicycles go so well together? Either way a beautiful display!  G-d has made such an amazing world for us.  And all our se...

Beautiful flowers for a beautiful day! In this painting, art does a wonderful job imitating life.  I love the flower pot as well as the flow...

So this week, I managed to check off 1 item from my bucket list.  I replaced an almost 16-year old 4Runner with a new car that I had bee...

Went to the Holy city of the Kabbalists today, Sefad. Saw the beautiful 15th century Abuhav Synagogue, the Candle Factory, the artist co...

So I hurt my back last week.  Incredibly painful.  Difficult getting up from sitting or laying position.  Today, I was trying to wal...

Coming into the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) tonight.  Lets everyone stay positive folks--we all have so much to be grateful for and ...

In lovely Florida. Hit the swimming pool. About to do my laps. I got my gear and ready to rock and roll. Please G-d, we'll spe...

So this past Shabbat, there was a wonderful guest speaker at Aish, Rav Gav(riel) Friedman.  He was a very lively speaker and with a lo...

So a colleague told me about an awful experience at work.  They came into the office and had a big surprise.  I won't ask you to g...

So we arrived in Israel for our daughter's wedding.  It was amazing to me to see how the Holy Land has so developed from when I was h...

Today, Jerusalem has been recognized as the capital of Israel--Mazel tov! - 70 years after President Truman instructed the State Depa...

The older (not that old) that I get, the more I realize that life and success is all about the people.  Whether it's our families, f...

Took a little hike on Sunday through Sligo Creek.  It was an absolutely gorgeous day.  Walking along the creek, we saw a mothe...

I took this video of the ocean waves coming unto the sandy beach (some seaweed included). 60 seconds of pure calm and peaceful tide.  T...

Washington D.C. on a beautiful Spring day.  Thank you G-d for the changing seasons, the warm sunshine, the soft elegant standing fl...

This has been an enormously tough year with the loss of my mom, my dad going into assisted living, and my hip replacement and complication...

At the pool this morning, the fresh clean water was pouring in. Swimming in the hot sun, I headed straight for the cool splash. The wa...

A mother wrote in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about the miracle of Cochlear Implants. Lydia Denworth described when her 2-year ...