Sherer "joined Agudath Israel as its executive vice president in 1941, when it was a small group with few employees," and added the title of president in 1963. He oversaw the tilt whereby "Within Orthodoxy, there's a sense of being pulled to the right."
Advocacy
He was an active presence in the United States capital for better than half-a-century, advocating the interests and articulating the views of Orthodox Jewry. In 1988 he created a full-time Orthodox Jewish government affairs office in Washington, D.C.. His role has been described as shtadlan ; he testified before Congress and often led groups of intercessors to Washington, to meet with elected officials. Throughout his career Sherer strongly supported the State of Israel and advocated on its behalf. , after the infamous “Zionism is Racism” United Nations resolution, Sherer, then-president of Agudath Israel of America, wrote that “Though the resolution was supposedly aimed only at secular ‘Zionism’… the slander is an attack on the entire Jewish people.” Even if the hatred was aimed only at certain Jews, he continued, “we would feel precisely the same responsibility to come to the defense of our brethren. While we may have our own quarrel with secular Zionism, when Jews are libeled, their affiliation does not matter; our love for our brothers and sisters draws us to their side.” But what is more, he stressed, “the U. N. resolution is aimed at all Jews, for it assails the historical Jewish right to Eretz Yisrael. The Torah bestowed that right, and any attack on it is an attack on Judaism and the Jewish people.” In 1997 he also coordinated advertising both in Israel and within the United States "to explain what Orthodox Judaism was about" and strengthen "Orthodoxy's increasingly influential right wing." That same year Sherer renewed advocacy regarding "Who is a Jew" and retaining a "One People, One Conversion" standard.
Eulogies
Among those public official who euologized the late Aguda leader were:
At Aguda's dinner that evening, Vice-President Al Gore said, just hours after the Petira: "Many in the Orthodox community say, 'How far we have come.' They should say, 'How far he brought us!'"
Biography
Matzav headlined "10 years in the making" for the 2009-published biography titled Rabbi Sherer: The Paramount Torah Spokesman of Our Era. The review by Yeshiva World includes Sherer saying that his 1938 encounter with Elchonon Wasserman was "a turning point in my life."
Early life
Sherer was born in Brooklyn on June 8, 1921. His early education was at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, followed by studying at Baltimore, Maryland-based Yeshivas Ner Yisroel. The New York Times wrote that "He told associates that his main mentor was the late Rabbi Aharon Kotler."
Family
His brother Harry was the principal of a yeshiva. Moshe Sherer died of leukemia on Sunday afternoon, May 17, 1998, survived by his wife, two married daughters, son Rabbi Shimshon Sherer, "and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren."
