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That is true for less than 50 percent of Reform Jews, since women are not called to the Torah at all.  Then take away all those who were converted by a non-Orthodox rabbi...

I think, for the purposes of the OP (who asked a perfectly reasonable question), you might be arguing for to-MAH-toes when the rest of us are fine with tomatoes.

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Well the exclusion of Reform females from being called for an aliyah, also applies to Orthodox females, and thus does not confirm "denominationalism"  In general whatever an Orthodox female can do in synagogue in terms of ritual leadership a Reform female can do (though I imagine at those modern O shuls that allow a female to give a dvar torah, they might be reluctant to have anyone who did not have an O education do so)

As for the issue of conversions, that is, in general one area where we tend to denominationalism.   Though again, only between the O and others.  Conservative rabbis lean over to accept Reform conversions, and of course Reform AFAIK always accepts C and O conversions.  Not sure if any Open Orthodox will accept a Conservative conversion that was done by an all male bet din and in other ways was ritually correct, or would reject it solely because of the heretical status of the rabbis on the bet din.[/quote]

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