Steinhardt’s Shtick

Samuel Freedman writes: Earlier this month, the Reuth social-service organization held its annual fund-raising dinner in Manhattan, at one point offering its podium to the philanthropist Michael Steinhardt. He took the occasion, according to a report in the New York Jewish Week, to say of Orthodox Jews, "They come from a different planet." Out in the audience, the newspaper went on to explain, those observant guests in attendance "shook their heads" or "squirmed in their seats."