Claim: Adam Ferziger won the 2011 Bar-Ilan's "Outstanding Lecturer" award and holds the Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah with Derekh Erez Movement which honors the founder of neo-Orthodoxy.
Evidence: In 2011, he received Bar-Ilan's "Outstanding Lecturer" award. 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. Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש‎; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.