It is sad to see that some of the posters have no clue about our Jewish history. Rav Hildesheimer was the founder and head of the illustruous “Rabbinerseminar” in Berlin and died late in the nineteenth century (1899). To call him ‘a pioneer of modern orthodox judaism’ is not only false but makes no sense as this term has only recently come into vogue (20 years/ 30 years?)
Incidentally, see wikipedia, he was a talmid of the “aruch laner” amongst others.
The fact is that all German gedolim went to university and that the vast majority of german orthodox jews did so too. Their brand of Judaism has survived and prospered. It may be that it was the precursor of “modern orthodoxy” but it had little in common with it(note that German orthodox jewry was mostly anti-zionist)
Rav herzog was chief Rabbi of Israel after rav kook zz’l,was a huge talmid chochom and had the respect of all the chareid gedolim in his time.
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