Gesa Ederberg

Gesa Shira Ederberg ( * 1968 in Tübingen ) is a German rabbi. She is conservative congregational the Jewish Community of Berlin, responsible for the liberal- egalitarian oriented Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue. She is also Executive Vice President and Treasurer of the European Region of the Rabbinical Assembly and founding member of the General Rabbinical Conference within the umbrella organization of the German Rabbinical Conference of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

Biographical

Gesa Ederberg studied Protestant theology, physics and Judaism in Tübingen, Bochum, Berlin and New York. From 1998 to 2002 she was a rabbinical student at the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. After their semicha in 2002, the formal ordination to the Rabbi, she officiated first in the Jewish community in Weiden in der Oberpfalz.

From 2002 to 2008 she was Executive Director of the Association Masorti eV In this capacity, she founded the Masorti kindergarten in Berlin, who works twice bilingual. The there supervised children aged 1-6 communicate ivrit - German and English - German.

Publications

• If not now, then when? On the future of German Jewry. Charlotte Knobloch, Micha Brumlik, Gesa S. Ederberg in conversation with Wilfried Kopke. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-451-29395-1