He is also a veteran syndicated columnist and feature writer for The Jerusalem Post[1] Freund grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended the Ramaz School and Princeton.
[2][3][4] He spent a post-college year in Israel, studying in a yeshiva and working part-time for the concert pianist and journalist David Bar-Illan, who at the time was the Oped Editor of the Jerusalem Post.
Freund returned to New York and was appointed at the age of 23 to be the speechwriter and assistant to the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, then went on to earn a graduate degree in business administration from Columbia University.
[2] Freund worked for a year with a short-lived NGO called Peace Watch, a right-of-center group monitoring the Oslo Accords.
[2] According to Freund, welcoming the Bnei Menashe and similar groups who sincerely wish to embrace Judaism and Jews identity is essential for the Jewish future.