Ben Freed is a graduating Rabbinical Student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.

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Ben Freed is a fifth and final-year Rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. As a Gladstein Fellow, he serves as the rabbinic intern at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, New York and as the student rabbi at Congregation Agudath Achim in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Ben holds degrees in journalism and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Texas. Before rabbinical school he worked as a reporter, yoga instructor, Uber driver, and Bar Mitzvah DJ. He also recently spent two summers as the education director of Camp Tel Yehudah—the senior leadership camp of Young Judaea, a pluralist Zionist youth movement. During his year in Israel with JTS, Ben interned at Kehilat Ramot Zion in Jerusalem.

Ben received formal Jewish education at Day Schools in North Carolina and Michigan where he learned Hebrew, basic text study skills, and that he could excel in sports as long as only Jews were participating.