Kollel Beis Aharon

Name

Kollel Beis Aharon, including Ohel Avrohom Synagogue⁽ⁱ⁾

Former Name

Edgware Community Kollel

Address:

Mowbray House, 58-70 Edgware Way, Edgware, HA8 8DQ⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

Current Status:

Active

Date Formed:

Although the Kollel in its present form appears to have been founded in about 2006⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾ the registered charity (see below) was registered in the 1970s.

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

None Known

Website:

http://kollelbeisaharon.co.uk/

Rabbi:

Rabbi Yehudah Boruch Lieberman - from at least 2015 (and probably much earlier) until about 2019 ^(v)

Rabbi Yaakov Aronovitz - from about 2019 until present (May 2021)^(vi)

Charitable and Legal Status:

Kollel Beis Aharon is also a registered charity (no. 263957), registered on 15 May 1972. The governing documents are the Company's Memorandum & Articles Association.^(vii)

There is also a private company, registered under the name Kollel Beis Aharon Limited (company no. 08689192), initially incorporated as Edgware Kollel Limited on 13 September 2013 followed almost immediately by a change of name to present name on 18 September 2013.^(viii) The relationship between the charity and the company is not clear.

Local Government District:

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).

Registration District (BMD):

Barnet - Link to Register Office website