Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Facing Hardship, Finding Humility ." Like Celine Dion, no matter how muc...

Handbags in the shape of human skulls.  Is that your dead sexy best? (Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

If you know your own strength and what you can do... Then you also know what you can't  do. While our dreams and imagination can be &qu...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Shabbat: Time Vs. Space ." When we choose to keep the Sabbath, we mark ...

People often give money for "charity" but then force the institutions to call the buildings or parts thereof by their donor'...

So we just finished watching Season Six of Alone (and have now started Season Seven). Highly trained professionals (military and otherwi...

Who would've thought that going to Harris Teeter would be a war zone.  But this guy in the respirator mask is showing us how bad thi...

Saw this at a doctors office in one of the patient rooms.  At first I wasn't even sure what it was.  Looks like a stomach. What ...

So I was talking to someone about their challenges in life. And they said something that really hit a chord: You never know what y...

While sometimes children behave like "know-it-alls"... Often an attempt to showcase what they've learned or to build their...

There is a buddhist philosophy that life is all about loss and suffering.  The Budha says: Life is suffering. Why?  Because life is ...

There is a very important article in the Wall Street Journal today on the link of loneliness to death.  Frightening loneliness statisti...

I saw this quote hanging on the wall.  It's by science fiction writer, Robert Anson Heinlein. "A human being should be able t...

Thought this was a good saying, and wanted to share it.  "A man grows with the greatness of his task." In Hebrew, there ...

So as we are about to enter Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year... I want to share a very important lesson that I came across again this ...

So as we all do, I often come across challenging and perplexing issues or problems in life.  And my nature is to try to understand them,...

Despite a generally longer life expectancy...people still have lots of aches and pains already by midlife.  Danielle Ofri in the New Y...

I wanted to share these photo that I took at Micro Center, a computer and electronics store, outside Washington DC.  On the wall are ...

INDISPENSABLE?       Sometime, when you’re feeling important,              Sometime, when your ego’s in bloom,              S...

So this week, there seems to be a theme of human frailty and mortality and I wanted to share it.  While it is the holidays and we are ce...