Our Event
Please join AIPAC and JFNNJ for a community-wide event at Temple Emanu-El of Closter on Wednesday, July 22 at 7:00pm. Ambassador Bradley Gordon, AIPAC's chief Iran lobbyist and one of the leading experts on Iran and nuclear non-proliferation, will discuss the recently signed agreement with Iran, the consequences associated with it, and how you can play an active role in shaping history.
Be there. Bring friends. And help us to send a strong message to our members of Congress about what an agreement must look like to stop Iran’s pathway to a nuclear weapon and keep Israel and the United States safe and secure.
Our Speaker
Ambassador Bradley Gordon is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Director of Policy and Government Affairs, a new position created in Oct. 2005. He had been AIPAC’s Legislative Director since January 1995. From February 1993 to January 1995, he was Staff Director of the International Operations Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), oversaw the operations of the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the U.S. Information Agency.
From March 1990 to January 1993, Brad was Assistant Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for Nonproliferation Policy. He was responsible for issues related to the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. He was also U.S. Ambassador to the Fourth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held in Geneva in August and September 1990.
Between 1985 and 1989, Brad was legislative advisor for foreign policy to Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN), and between 1985 and 1987 was the professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee responsible for the Middle East and South Asia.
He worked as a political analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1979 to 1985 in the office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis.
Brad graduated cum laude and with Honors in Politics from Brandeis University in 1971. He received a Master of Arts degree in political science in 1974 from the University of Vermont. He received a Masters of Philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1978 and a Certificate from its Middle East Institute in 1977. While at Columbia, Mr. Gordon was a National Defense Foreign Language Fellow in Arabic and was selected as Research Assistant for its Middle East Institute.
Brad spent more than two years in Israel and speaks fluent Hebrew.
He is married and has three children.