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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, " Synagogue or Sickness? " When I was a kid and my father would {...

Funny story from a wonderful relative of mine...made me laugh during this coronavirus outbreak. ------------------- "I interrupt the...

So I had a little procedure this week.  I hate going to the hospital--who doesn't? But I figured better to take care of something ...

So a very nice elderly lady we know from synagogue took a bad fall and broke her leg really badly...like in half. She put up on Face...

Just wanted to share this beautiful flower that I came across on the hiking trail yesterday.  I have never seen a flower with pedals of ...

I saw this sign hanging prominently in a large local Baltimore hospital here (and it comes from the Talmud):  "He who saves one lif...

I read about this amazing " Spiritual Communications Board " that Chaplain Joel Nightingale Berning invented for New York-Presby...

So I wanted to share this amazing and scary story (true) that happened to me a number of years ago.  I went with my daughter to visit the...

So oddly, one thing that many people these days find really hard to do is STOP AND THINK. What do I mean? Be alone, do nothing, and ju...

I thought you may find these photos interesting of how medicine used to be--not all that long ago. I took these at Georgetow...

Came out of the hospital yesterday. Able to walk with a walker--thankful for this miracle already. Thanks to good 'ol technology...

So surgery was yesterday around 11 am. I was asleep under anesthesia before I ever even got to the operating room, so can't remember...

My wife took this photo today at The Drupal for Government Conference at NIH. The man in the photo was not only participating in the con...

Some things I learned from breaking an ankle this week: 1) Beware of the Crazies:  There are a lot of crazy people out there. This guy o...

So a couple of funny things happened at the doctor lately... My daughter had her molars removed and in the office they had an urn labele...

How many of you heard the phrase as a child, "Cleanliness is next to G-dliness"? Over the years, we've learned that germs ...

We’ve all been in work environments that make us either feel good about coming to the office in the morning, and those which don’t. Fo...

So recently, I was in the hospital for something.  G-d, I hate hospitals, but this time something was going on and I knew I had to g...

Combine the Seattle Children's Hospital Hemoncology Unit with Kelly Clarkson's song "Stronger," and you have the true es...