Chazan Jaclyn (Jacky) Chernett is a musicologist and lecturer who is Cantor at Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue in Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet. She was ordained as a cantor in 2006, receiving her semikhah from the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR) in New York and becoming the first female cantor in the United Kingdom.
Chernett is a vice-president of Masorti Judaism in the UK and the founder, in 2017, of the European Academy for Jewish Liturgy (EAJL). She is an Associate member of the London College of Music and received an M.Phil degree in Ethnomusicology in Biblical Chant from City University, London in 1998.
She and her husband live in Edgware.
References
- ^ Finch, Felicity (15 September 2006). "Female Chazzan". Woman's Hour. BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- "Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue". JCR-UK. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- Secret Shul Goer (Wolfson, Rina) (1 August 2017). "Secret Shul Goer No 4: Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Jaclyn Chernett". Beyond Borders. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- "Meet the Team: EAJL's Trustees – Chazan Jacky Chernett". EAJL. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- Chernett, Jaclyn (11 January 2018). "The European Academy for Jewish Liturgy (EAJL)". Masorti Judaism. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- Heller, Charles (26 January 2021). "Report COZ 28" (PDF). European Academy for Jewish Liturgy. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- Chernett, Jaclyn. "Jaclyn Chernett MPhil Thesis". Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- "Our chazan, Jaclyn Chernett". Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
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