Don Feder was a Boston Herald editorial writer and syndicated columnist from
June 1983 to June 2002. For 19 years, his column appeared in the Herald, New
England’s second largest newspaper. On February 28, 2002, the paper published
his 2,000th column.Feder’s column was syndicated by Creator’s Syndicate in Los Angeles, and carried
by more than 40 newspapers and e-magazines nationwide.
His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard,
National Review, American Enterprise, Readers Digest, Front Page Magazine,
Insight and Human Events. The author of two books – “A Jewish Conservative Looks
at Pagan America” (1993) and “Who’s Afraid of the Religious Right?” (1996),
Feder has traveled extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He was in
Belgrade two weeks after the bombing ended in 1999.
Feder is the 1998 recipient of the International
Communications Award of the Republic of China on Taiwan and the winner of the
first-place prize in the Amy Foundation Writing Awards for 1993. The Amy
Foundation recognizes writers who project Biblical truths in the secular media.
Feder has addressed the annual conventions or meetings of the Rabbinical Council
of America, Concerned Women for America, Toward Tradition, the Christian
Coalition, Nation Right to Life Committee, the Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC), the College Republicans, Empower America, the Council for
National Policy, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, the
Interfaith Zionist Leadership Summit, the World Affairs Councils of Boston and
Portland, Maine, The World Congress of Families II in Geneva in 1999 and The
World Congress of Families III in Mexico City, in March 2004.
Feder has lectured or debated at Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Hillsdale, Bates
College, Carlton College, NYU, Regent University, UCLA, Hampshire College, The
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Boston University and Boston College.
He has appeared on network and syndicated radio and television shows, including
“The O’Reilly Factor, “ “C-Span,” “Politically Incorrect,” “The 700 Club,”
“Focus on the Family,” “Beverly LaHaye Live,” “Coral Ridge Ministries,” “Fox&
Friends,” and Jerry Falwell’s “Listen America.” His columns have been read on
the air by Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura and Michael Savage.
Feder is a 1969 graduate of the Boston University College of Liberal arts and a
1972 graduate of the Boston University Law School.
He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts.
Besides practicing law and writing a syndicated column, Feder served as
executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation (a statewide taxpayers group
that passed a cap on property taxes), executive director of the Second Amendment
Foundation and editorial director of WEEI Newsradio in Boston.
He has a media/political consulting firm -- Don Feder Associates -- is a
frequent contributor to various publications, and has a website –
www.donfeder.com.
Feder is the communications director of the World Congress of Families. |