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. [1] [2] [3] 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. [1]
Chernett is a vice-president of Masorti Judaism in the UK and the founder, in 2017, of the European Academy for Jewish Liturgy (EAJL). [4] [5] [6] She is an Associate member of the London College of Music [7] and received an M.Phil degree in Ethnomusicology in Biblical Chant from City University, London in 1998. [8] [9]
She and her husband live in Edgware. [4]