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

(Credit Photo: Minna Blumenthal)

(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Wow, this guy waited on line at the supermarket to buy one single potato.  That's right, nothing else. He wasn't a poor guy or anyth...

These dogs are hungry for some good cooking too! (Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Big cooking wok! Fry it up in the pan.  Oodles of noodles.  Sautéed with soy sauce. Wrapped around the large spoons.  Looks filling, gut-bus...

Do we see and hear when people are hurting? Do we pay attention or look away? Do we even care? Do we do anything about it? As quee...

Continued to be appalled at the unlivable "living conditions" of the homeless in the Capital.  Makeshift tents line up and dow...

These birds decided to swoop in for some lunch.  It was funny to see the people go scrambling from the table. The birds were comp...

So my terrific, son-in-law Itzchak surprised us with some delicious Beyond Burgers before Shabbat.  They are meatless burg...

So I've never had a cheeseburger.  I keep kosher.  And we don't mix milk and meat together. Tough watching all the fast food...

I'm not sure how you control yourself around this Alpaca Ice Cream. But somehow I managed not to get any...this time.   I promi...

So who would've thought that Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham" comes in Hebrew.  I watched this video, and loved it! It...

So I ran into this lady in downtown Washington, D.C. She posed for the picture and made sure to line up the top and the bottom posters t...

So being a millionaire is no longer anything. You're still considered sort of a poor schlub! Even a billionaire is not such a big...

So I saw another homeless person yesterday eating out of the garbage on the street.  They had flipped open the top, reached in, pulled o...

So is man an angel or a beast? On one hand, we see small and great acts of love, kindness and generosity.  People feeding the hungry, ...

I took this photo in Washington, DC. Two statues of back-to-back homeless people in the grit on the sidewalk. They sit as everyone rus...

Poverty is not just a phenomenon of poor, homeless and hungry people.  It is a social and economic epidemic, and here are some soberi...

So the latest this week from the crumbling infrastructure of the DC Metro train system, not withstanding the mess of Operation SafeTrack....

So a funny part of my personality is that I can be a little bit of a joker sometimes. I am a study of human nature, so it can be fun jus...