Gesa Ederberg

Gesa Ederberg (born 1968 in Tübingen) became the first female pulpit rabbi in Berlin in 2007 when she became the rabbi of the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue in the former East Berlin. Her installation as such was opposed by Berlin’s senior Orthodox rabbi Yitzchak Ehrenberg.

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• Gesa ederberg in the footsteps of regina jonas
• Gesa Ederberg You Should Be a Rabbi
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She converted to Judaism in 1995. She was ordained by the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem in 2003.

She established a Conservative Jewish beit midrash in Berlin.

As of 2013, she is the executive vice president of Masorti Europe and the rabbi of Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue.