Dr. Ari Gordon is American Jewish Committee (AJC) Director of Muslim-Jewish relations, where he leads the organization’s interreligious engagement with Muslim leadership in the United States and around the world. He is a scholar of Islamic studies and the history of interreligious relations, and for two decades Ari has been at the forefront of Jewish bridge-building efforts with other faith groups. He has been a fellow with the Wexner Foundation, the El-Hibri Foundation, the Shalom Hartman Insitute, the Aspen Institute’s Powering Pluralism Network and the Vartan Gregorian Center for the Humanities at the New York Public Library. Gordon is a graduate of Yeshiva University (BA 2005), Harvard Divinity School (MTS 2010), and University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of “Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam” (Routledge 2025), an exploration of identity, sacred geography and interreligious encounters in Islam’s formative period.
