Much like rabbi kook, where haskama of a person assumes the one giving it knows all the info, why don’t you ask rabbi bender if he thinks that equating torah and science is a “different derech”, or promoting feminism, or having a rosh Yeshiva who questioned krias yam suf in class, or rabbi shechters idea that you can sacrifice Jewish lives on the altar of zionism to protect the “nations life force”
Go ahead. He probably just thinks that they’re into secular studies and believe in having a Jewish state.