Don Feder, a writer who published more than 2,000 Boston Herald columns and now hosts a radio show, offers a talk titled "Why the Left Hates Israel" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. 

The event is sponsored by the Bates College Republicans and Young America's Foundation. The public is invited to attend at no charge.

Feder was a Boston Herald editorial writer and syndicated columnist from June 1983 to June 2002. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The American Enterprise and Reader's Digest. He is the author of two books, "A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America" (Vital Issues Press, 1993) and "Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?" (Regnery Publishing, 1996). His latest book, "The Tattered Flag: The Fight for America in the 21st Century," is forthcoming.

Feder received the 1998 International Communications Award of the Republic of China on Taiwan and first place in the 1993 Writing Awards given by the Amy Foundation, which recognizes writers who project biblical truths in the secular media.

He has addressed gatherings of the Rabbinical Council of America, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Coalition, the National Right to Life Committee, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Council for National Policy, the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council and the World Affairs Councils of Boston and Portland. He has appeared on many radio and television shows, including "Politically Incorrect" and "The 700 Club." 

Feder is a 1969 graduate of Boston University and a 1972 graduate of the Boston University Law School. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts. He has served as executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation and editorial director of WEEI Newsradio, in Boston.

Feder has a media consulting firm, Don Feder Associates. In March, he began a daily radio show on Boston's WROL-AM.