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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.
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.
She was part of the 2006 founding of the European Rabbinical Assembly of
Masorti/Conservative Rabbis.
As of 2013, she is the executive vice president of Masorti Europe and the rabbi of Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue.
Publications.
"Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann? Zur Zukunft des deutschen Judentums" [meaning "If not now, when then? On the future of the German Jewry"] by Gesa Ederberg, Micha Brumlik, and Charlotte Knobloch.