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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " From Destruction to Rebirth ." As the Jewish people, we have routinely ...

Wow, this is an incredibly moving depiction of the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem.  May G-d have mercy and renew our times as o...

Never saw a flower vase with a face and the guys tongue hanging out.  Very creative, but also a little gross.  I remember some crazy elders ...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, "G-d's Redemption Is A Promise." The Jewish people’s exile was only t...

What's it like to feel shame? In this life, it's having your head ripped around your body. Then in the next life, it's got to be...

I know in the olden days they would chop off people's hands for stealing.  But this sign in a modern day store in America seemed jus...

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

Photos are from my tour of Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia.  The prison cells were...

Today is the Jewish fast day of Tzom Gedaliah.  Gedaliah had been appointed governor of Israel by the Babylonian conquers in 423 BCE.  H...

This was quite an interesting picture to put in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.  That is one mighty large scissors that lady ...

This last week protesters against Justice Kavanaugh came up against Senator Manchin (D. WV) in a head on confrontation.  He was being int...

Please see my new article, Naked Before G-d , in The Times of Israel.  "In such a G-dly place [as the Kotel], where we are all spir...

L-rd, Bless your loving children.  And do swift justice to the wicked that seek their destruction.  Bless those that stand guard at yo...

Sometimes I come across people with enormous wealth and power.  Many wield it like they own it and deserve it.  I wonder sometimes wit...

So I spoke to someone who tried to commit suicide. This is what they told me: "When you try to commit suicide, there is no light;...

So there was a bar mitzvah in synagogue today.  It was very memorable, I think not only for the young man and his family, but for many o...

So I learned that there are at least 2 things to be mindful of when it comes to a firing squad: 1. Never get between a man and his firin...

It is high time to stop being bystanders while our military is forced to stand mostly idle in the face of the heinous  crimes against huma...

So if you want to know who are the real animals in this world... It's people! If you can stomach it, watch this graphic video of e...

So over and over again, we read about the desire and promise by some to close Guantanamo Bay ("Gitmo")--the prison for terrorist...