Gesa Ederberg

Gesa Ederberg (born 1968 in Tübingen, Germany) is a German rabbi; she became the first female pulpit rabbi in Berlin in 2007 when she became the rabbi of the New Synagogue, Berlin (Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue) in the former East Berlin. Her installation as such was opposed by Berlin's senior Orthodox rabbi Yitzchak Ehrenberg. She established a Conservative Jewish beit midrash in Berlin.

As of 2013, she was the executive vice president of Masorti Europe and the rabbi of New Synagogue, Berlin.

The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way; Yona Verwer created the artwork about Ederberg that was in that exhibit.

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