 In 1988 he created the only full-time Orthodox Jewish government affairs office in Washington, D.C.Throughout his career Sherer strongly supported the State of Israel and advocated on its behalf.In 1975, 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 [Agudath Israel adherents] would feel precisely the same responsibility to come to the defense of our brethren.