Sam, mw13 makes an excellent point. If you’re going to eject Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer from being MO because you claim he is too much on the right-side of the religious spectrum for the true MO, surely you should banish from rightfully claiming to be MO those who are so much on the left of the spectrum (and I’m not only referring to the Open Orthodox) that they actually (unlike RAM) openly violate halacha b’shitta. Like some of the examples mw13 gave, those MO (who you should categorize are really between MO and Conservative) that wear miniskirts, pants, don’t cover their hair, wear short sleeve shirts, aren’t shomer negiah, eat in non-certified vegetable or dairy restaurants, keep “half Shabbos” r’l, etc.
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