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Popa, you say you know they’re “Conservative.” But “Conservative” Judaism denies Oral Torah from Mount Sinai, and freely overrules the basic halacha, from saying that women don’t have to count 7 days before the mikvah, to ruling Kohanim can marry divorcees, and believes no distinctions between men and women (semicha, laining, mechitza, etc.) can be maintained. YCT rabbis do none of that (even the “rabba” episode didn’t go that far). So you’re using the term “Conservative” in a highly unusual way. Even if a few LWMO people describe themselves as Conservadox or something, that doesn’t pull the whole movement out of Orthodoxy. Maybe they’re somewhat more flexible about certain issues of halacha and hashkafa than the Centrist Orthodox or charedim, but how can you demonstrate that they’ve crossed a line? I don’t think you can.