Theodore Steinberg
Theodore Steinberg
Born circa 1928 in Brooklyn, NY, Rabbi Theodore Steinberg was a Conservative rabbi ordained at The Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Upon retiring from serving as a pulpit rabbi, he moved to Jerusalem, Israel. In 1980, Rabbi Steinberg completed his dissertation "Max Kadushin, Scholar of Rabbinic Judaism: A Study of His Life, Work, and Theory of Valuational Thought" at New York University on the life of the rabbinics scholar Max Kadushin; Steinberg's work was the first scholarly volume...
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Just the fact that a major American city had to be evacuated, there's no precedent for that -- not just in American history, but world history.
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Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.
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The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.