Why would R’ Schachter have to say anything? He’s been saying Open Orthodoxy is Conservative for years. This won’t cause a problem within YU. The RCA statement last week about female Smichah caused a bit of a controversy (and by “a bit of a controversy” I mean that some on YU’s left-most wing were upset by it for technical reasons and only a very small few disagreed with the substance), but this won’t cause anything there. Every YU Rosh Yeshivah agrees with it and probably at least 80% of the Talmidim (maybe even over 90%) do. And that rate is close to 100% within Smichah.
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