Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue

Congregation Data

Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue

Services have been held at the Leonard Sainer Centre, Jewish Care, Rectory Lane, Edgware, HA8 7LF from at least 2013, although services are often held on Zoom⁽ⁱ⁾

Services previously held at Brady Maccabi Centre, Gideon Close, Manor Park Crescent, Edgware HA8 7NN (which is the current address of Ahavas Yisrael Synagogue and was the previous address of Edgware Masorti Synagogue)

Active

2001⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

Masorti / Conservative

The congregation is a constituent synagogue of Masorti Judaism (known as the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues until 2012).⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

http://www.kolnefesh.org.uk/

Rabbi Joel Levy (part time) - 2001 to present (January 2026).^(iv)

Chazan Jaclyn (Jacky) Chernett  - 2006 to present (January 2026)^(v)

National Reports & Surveys:^(viii)

2010 & 2016 - listed as having 50 to 99 members (by household)

Annual Reports of Masorti Judaism^(ix) - number of members as of 1 January:

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
114	105	103	103	105	108	102	100	105

2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
106	107	107	109	135	128	133	139	139

The congregation is a registered charity (no.1081444), registered on 5 June 2000. ^(x) The governing document is the congregation's Constitution adopted 17 May 2000.

Edgware, a residential suburb in Northwest London, has a substantial Jewish minority. Most of Edgware (including the locality in which the synagogue is situated) is in the London Borough of Barnet (formed in 1965).

Barnet (from formation of the Congregation) - Link to Register Office website

The congregation has "London Synagogue" membership of the Jewish Joint Burial Society (JJBS), which includes rights of burial at one of the Society's cemeteries, in particular the Western Cemetery, Bulls Cross Ride, Cheshunt. There is also generally the option (through the JJBS) of a Woodland Burial in Cheshunt or cremation at Golders Green Crematorium.

Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)

• (i) This address first appears in the Jewish Year Book 2014 although the congregation's website referred to Zoom meetings. ↵

• (ii) Congregation's website. ↵

• (iii) From its first appearance in Jewish Year Books in 2001, the congregation was listed as a constituent of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues (AMS) and has been classified as a constituent synagogue in AMS's annual reports from the filing of the first annual report in 2007 (which followed AMS's incorporation - it had previously been an unincorporated association) until the latest annual report, filed for 2017 (see note (vi) below). ↵

• (iv) Congregation's website, most recently accessed January 2026. To view a short profile of Rabbi Levy, hold the cursor over his name ↵

• (v) Congregation's website, most recently accessed January 2026. To view a short profile of Chazan Chernett, hold the cursor over her name ↵

• (vi) and (vii) Reserved.

• (viii) Reports on synagogue membership in the United Kingdom, published by or on behalf of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) and which can be viewed on the website of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research. Click HERE for links to the various reports. In compiling the report for 2010, the size of membership of this congregation was inferred from 2005 data as it was not possible for the BoD to obtain the data directly. ↵

• (ix) These figures appear higher than the figures for the above reports and presumably include more than one member per household. See links to Masorti Judaism's annual reports. ↵

• (x) Charities Commission website, accessed January 2025. Clicking on the charity number of this will take you to the charity's former registration on the Charities Commission website.. ↵