Gesa Ederberg
Gesa Shira Ederberg ( also Gesa S. Ederberg or Gesa Ederberg; born 1968 in Tübingen ) is a German rabbi . She is the conservative rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin , responsible for the liberal-egalitarian synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse . She is also Executive Vice President and Treasurer of the European Region of the Rabbinical Assembly and a 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 Jewish studies in Tübingen , Bochum, Berlin and New York. In 1992 she converted to Judaism. From 1998 to 2002 she was a rabbinical student at the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem . After her Semicha in 2002, the formal ordination as a rabbi, she first officiated in the Jewish community in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate .
From 2002 to 2008 she was the managing director of the Masorti e. V. In this capacity she founded the Masorti Kindergarten in Berlin, which works bilingually . The children from 1 to 6 years of age cared for there communicate Ivrit- German and English-German.
Gesa Ederberg is married and has three children.
In 2020 she will be honored by the Berlin House of Representatives with the Louise Schroeder Medal for her interreligious commitment to gender equality .
During the 2020 corona crisis, she took part in a much-noticed interreligious service broadcast live on television in the Maria Regina Martyrum church in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Publications
- If not now then when? On the future of German Jewry. Charlotte Knobloch , Micha Brumlik , Gesa S. Ederberg in conversation with Wilfried Köpke . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29395-5 , pp. 89–142.
Web links
- The Oranienburger Strasse synagogue team. Rabbi Gesa S. Ederberg ( Memento from August 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue (short portrait)
- Gesa Ederberg. General Rabbinical Conference (ARC) website
Individual evidence
- ^ Oranienburger Strasse synagogue. In: jg-berlin.org, Jewish Community of Berlin, accessed on March 2, 2020.
- ^ Gesa Ederberg. General Rabbinical Conference (ARC) website, accessed March 2, 2020.
- ↑ News Ticker. In: The Church . Volume 26, No. 9, March 1, 2020, p. 2.
- ↑ https://www.rbb-online.de/derrbbmachts/gottesdienst/oekumenischer-gottesdienst-in-der-maria-regina-matyrium-gedenkkirche.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ederberg, Gesa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ederberg, Gesa Shira (full name); Ederberg, Gesa S. (alternative name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |