https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/298201
Even Conservative rabbis do not recognize Reform conversions. When I spoke at a Reconstructionist temple’s public panel alongside a Reform rabbi and a Conservative rabbi on the subject of conversion, everyone in the audience expected that a major onslaught would be directed universally at me once I spoke simple truths. But that never happened. Instead, when the Reform rabbi said that he does not require immersion into a mikveh for conversion — or even into a swimming pool or home bath tub (not that either of those last two would have any halakhic consequence at all) — it was the Conservative rabbi who interjected: “My movement would not recognize such a conversion!”
Off the top, I don't know what the official policy out of JTS is but most Conservative "rabbis" recognized anything without hesitation for fear of being called intolerant or at least not inclusive. The current "rabbi" at the synagogue I grew up in is a Reform convert. The congregation likes her a lot.
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