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

So last night (on the last night of Hanukkah) I had the most amazing dream.  In the dream, I saw a celestial being come to me. And it was cl...

I meant to post this on the past Sunday for Mother's Day. Love you Mom always and miss you so much!  Send my love to Dad also in Heaven....

I had the Yartzeit (memorial anniversary) for my mom this last week.  Can't believe it's been 7 years already! Came across this pict...

Happy Mother's Day to my dear, beautiful, and special mom! Even though it's been 6 years since you passed over to Heaven, I ca...

It's a pretty well-known Jewish tradition that Chicken Soup is almost like an cure all.  Our moms for centuries have preached chicke...

On the way to a family wedding in Monsey. We stopped back home in Riverdale, NY after 20 years. Wow, old building still here. ...

When I was a kid and I went to the supermarket with my mom, I remember always seeing the " Andy Boy Broccoli " in the produce ai...

What an amazing painting featured in the movie, Woman In Gold. The painting is called the Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I  and was comm...

So this was really strange what happened to me before Yom Kippur.  My parents passed away 5-6 years ago already. I always miss them ...

So I never met a piece of cheesecake that I didn't like.  This was an awesome display of the varieties of it at the Cheesecake Facto...

So yesterday, I started Ulpan classes to improve my Hebrew language skills (currently, I'm not very skillful with it). It was 2.5 ho...

I can't just call or visit my dad to wish him a happy Father's Day. My dad is in heaven.  But I am thinking about him, missing...

My Nephew Naphtali Herbsman posted this on Facebook today and I love it!   I miss my mom (A"H) and dad (A"H) and wish they wer...

So grateful to my wonderful colleagues and friends here at the Department of State.  Cards for the loss of my mom and dad...one year apa...

We are here today to remember and honor my mother, Gerda Blumenthal, who passed away on Monday.   My mother was my personal heroine, ...

Soon we will end the weekend and move into the next workweek. As a kid, I remember people calling it "Blue Monday"--presumably...

This is a picture of my beautiful mother.  My daughter Minna found this picture in one of our old albums and made it new again with her ...

At the dedication of the new George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the picture of the elder Bush in a wheelchair...

I fondly remember when I was a kid going occassionally with my mom to the local synagogue to help the elderly with their weekly bingo gam...