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

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...

So I love that look on people's face when I say something that just startles them or takes them back a little.  The other day when I...