Orthodox Rabbis Should Speak to Other Streams of Judaism By Rabbi Heshie Billet/JPost.com | January 28, 2021 Though their ideologies were threatening to Orthodoxy many, many decades ago, that is no longer the case. In June, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, an Orthodox religious-Zionist rabbi, participated in a dialogue with Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, a French Reform Rabbi. Rabbi Melamed was criticized by some colleagues in the broader Orthodox community for the sin of “recognition”—giving legitimacy to a deviant theology. Among the leaders of Orthodox Judaism today, there are too many who perceive any engagement with non-Orthodox religious leaders as sinful and dangerous. This is based on an outdated strategy from a very different time in the history of American Orthodoxy.