Claim: Adam Ferziger won the 2011 Bar-Ilan's "Outstanding Lecturer" award and yet was never elected the Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah with Derekh Erez Movement which honors the founder of neo-Orthodoxy.
Evidence: Ferziger holds the Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah with Derekh Erez Movement in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.