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He also helped establish Agudath Israels celebrated Jewish youth groups and summer camps. and pioneered the organizations current role as a leading force in the provision of social and educational services in the New York area. Rabbi Sherers earliest work on behalf of the Jewish communitythe efforts that first evoked the larger nonOrthodox Jewish establishments opprobriumwas the grassroots. and largely illegal. organization and transport of food shipments to starving Jews in Nazioccupied Eastern Europe in 1941. His efforts also produced affidavits for European Jewish refugees that helped them immigrate to the United States. After the end of World War II. he and Agudath Israel continued to assist European Jewssurvivors interned in Displaced Person campswith foodstuffs and religious items. and helped facilitate the immigration and resettlement of Jewish refugees on these shores. In ensuing decades. Rabbi Sherer spearheaded Agudath Israels efforts on behalf of endangered Jews behind the Iron Curtain and in places like Syria and Iran.