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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " The Jewish Cure for Anxiety ." Anxiety has become a constant backdrop i...

  Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " My Dear Fellow Jews: Where Are You ?" We may disagree on policies, a...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Kabbalah Meets the Dalai Lama ." In 1990, a groundbreaking interfaith jo...

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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Redemption: A Time of Peril and Opportunity ." The return of the hostag...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Breaking Free From the Illusion of the Peaceniks ." The overall lesson i...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Life is Full of Oohs and Ahs ." These are collectively the ah-ha moment...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Don't Be So Humble; You're Not That Great ." In short, Judaism t...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " My Supernova ." Years ago, there was a time when I rebelled against rel...

  Please see my new article in  The Times of Israel  called " Bringing the Community Together this Sukkot ." Like in all socio-eco...

  Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " A More Important Checklist for Yom Kippur ." If we measure a person...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Rosh Hashanah Reflections ." Rosh Hashanah is the annual wake-up call fo...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " When Politics Gets Personal ." Not unlike the deep political divide in ...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Looking Beyond the Superficial ." We are all much more than our physica...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Some Shabbos Chuckles ." People never fail to amaze me in both their po...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Kosher in Body and Soul ." The essence of keeping kosher is not that we...

Please see my new poem in  The Times of Israel  called " Mutual and Eternal Love ." Like Abraham, we are tested to do "what i...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Monsters and Humans ." Ultimately, the litmus test is whether there is ...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " The Hypocrisy of False Repentance ." We firmly believe that there is tru...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Finding Truth in a Topsy-Turvy World ."  In terms of seeing the world a...