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

This just seemed like a funny photo to me. In the cafeteria, someone was checking out at the register.  And on their lunch/food tray, ...

Please see my new article in Times of Israel called, "Shabbat Nachamu: That's The Power of Love." We don't have to fig...

This was a cute cartoon that "Anastasia The Lifeguard" doodled of me swimming.  She captured me doing my laps.  Enjoying...

So this is an interesting meeting facilitation technique.  Sometimes people get carried away in meetings either as  broken records,   sp...

So when I saw this colored rock last evening, it made me think two things: One, cool idea, looks nice and fun to make. Two, it reminde...

So here is one way that some people can (try to) manipulate you--positively or negatively.  They can help either to keep you "in th...

So it's been raining so much here in the DC area lately. The result is that the hot Summer July temperatures are down in the cool 70...

Last night, as Tisha B'Av (the commemoration of the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples in Jerusalem) was nearing conc...

I am so excited to play this edition of Monopoly Jerusalem edition.  The properties of obviously from famous places in the Holy City of ...

Please see my new article in Times of Israel, " Israel Must Fight Fire With Fire ." When the Hamas terrorist's from Gaza a...

Anger is one of those emotions (like jealousy) that can clearly get the best of people.  Hence, the term anger management! The Talmud ...

So sometimes you don't know that something is happening until it is too late.  A colleague yesterday told me this great simile: It...

Took this photo yesterday in the courtyard during a thunderstorm. It is the first time that I was actually able to see the rain almost i...

So it's amazing how people are so willing to throw away friendship.  They get angry about something having nothing even to do with y...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel, Legitimate Use of Landmines for Israel-Gaza Border .  Israel should consider use of la...

Is being old an age, a feeling, or both? Some people seem to get old before their time. They go about echting and kretzching--at 40 an...

Ok, the title of this blog may not be the best.  Some may associate the "Love Truck" with human trafficking or something horri...

Please see my new article in Times of Israel, " Israel's Ladder To Space ." So proud of Israel's planning to join the ...

So I learned a lesson recently. Sometimes, a kiss is not a kiss.  It could be a phony show.  Like a snake.  It slithers and fools ...

Who would think you'd find a car like this in Washington, D.C.? Definitely a standout, you think.  Although it seems like the peop...

So many synagogues have this important saying at the top of the Holy Ark where the Torahs are kept in front of the shul. It says, transl...

I liked this categorization of three types of tools of persuasion developed by Aristotle:  - Ethos: Appeals to a sense of ethics, mor...

Beautiful guitar band @Lake Needwood today. First, we went for a nice kayak boat ride around the lake. Then I couldn't help stoppi...

Please see my new article in Times of Israel called, "Dialogue with a Former Israel Supporter." Israel is not only the biblica...

I really liked this sign with the saying by civil rights leader, Maya Angelou: "We all should know that diversity makes for a rich ...

Someone mentioned that they went to the Cheesecake Factory the other day. They said they bought a slice of cheesecake.  I asked:  ...

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...

So I thought this was an interesting topic for the sermon on Shabbat by Ben Shemony.  It was about how we are confronted in life with wh...

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...

With gratitude to my beautiful daughter, Minna Blumenthal, for sharing this song by Idan Raichel with me.  Shabbat Shalom!

Happy Friday everyone! Yesterday, someone gave me a couple of these bright yellow smileys--one on the back of each of my hands.  I was...

So we all know these type of people that love to criticize and bully.   They are the critics in chief.  You have to wonder what thei...

So this was amazing.  I was working with someone for a number of weeks/months.  All of a sudden, I got a complete blow off email from th...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with a Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT).  The tires can switc...

Please see my new article in Times of Israel .  As much as we have to remember the horrors of the Holocaust and how so-called, human bei...

So I used to hear from my wife about when she was young and went to the bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains. And today, I heard fr...