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

Soft pastry, hot cheese, smooth cream, sweet syrup, crunchy almonds and pistachio. What a scrumptious treat! Straight from Jerusalem market....

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called Turning Nabka to Babka .  The term Nakba, in relation to Israel, was actually was f...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " A Practical Approach to Peace in the Middle East ." The question then is...

 Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, " Never A Doubt: Not An Inch ." In an effort to make peace with the Pal...

In these great times of strife and controversy in this country... One thing that we can probably all agree on: Make Falafel Not War ...

I love this saying from one of my colleagues in the National Security field about the Middle East: If you aren't invited for dinner...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, " Who Is Occupying Whom? " Palestine was  never  a state, nor one ev...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, " I Watch With Terror The Rockets Fly ." I watch with terror the ...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel, called " Government Shutdown or Middle East Peace ." "It is day 19 of...

Every day we are reminded about the dysfunctional state of our national affairs. The dictum of the Hippocratic Oath of" first do...

One of the most important qualities of a leader is responsibility and accountability--as they typically say, "the buck stops here....

September 4, 1886, Geronimo, the last American Indian warrior surrenders to the United States and later after some time in prison, Geron...

So I saw this cool volcano making kit in the store.  Kids typically do this cool experiment where they make a mock volcano erupt and ...

Another stabbing in Jerusalem--right in the back of the head! So far 18 terror stabbings in Israel in less than 10 days. You never kn...

Russia upends the U.S. and NATO once again, now carrying out a third day of a devastating bombing campaign that shows no sign of letting ...

Someone sent me this video by Dennis Prager on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and I wanted to share it. An easy conflict to explain, a...

So with the shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Oakland Park, Kansas this week right before Passover, and the near simultaneous ...

It can be hard for a regular person to understand the course of events in the Middle East--I certainly don't! I recognize that I don...

Peace comes in many shapes and sizes--peace talks, peace negotiations, peace treaties, and now even peace trucks. Reminiscent of the p...

This is a wonderful, moving music video by Israeli composer Asaf Avidan, remixed by German DJ--the song is called One Day/Reckoning (Wan...