Rabbi Ben Perlstein is a Chaplain Resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, serving primarily on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center campus. He worked previously as a Rabbinic Fellow at Romemu in Manhattan and received rabbinic ordination in 2021 from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he also completed an M.A. in Jewish Thought focused on ethics and mysticism.

Ben previously graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University, where he studied political science and participated in the Institute for Global Leadership's EPIIC and Synaptic Scholars programs. He is also a grateful alumnus and current junior faculty member of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), and through the international Jewish education organization Kivunim, Ben has spoken at the U.N. on the complexities of contemporary Holocaust commemoration and participated in the first Holocaust conference in the Arab world. He is passionate about creative, multidisciplinary and multifaith applications of spiritual wisdom and practice to issues of public concern and pastoral need.