Joshua Kullock, at The Blogs

Apr 6, 2020, 7:43 PM

25 ‘miniature’ thoughts on Pesach and Freedom

The following miniature thoughts were originally crafted as tweets. I have expanded some of them and tweaked some others for the sake of this post. May some of these thoughts become the seeds of meaningful conversations during the seder...

Oct 27, 2014, 10:11 PM

Torah from the Zombie War

A few weeks ago, a congregant came to me with a book. It was World War Z by Max Brooks. I’ll be honest with you: Zombies are not my thing. It’s not that I don’t like them. I just...

Oct 7, 2014, 11:20 PM

Three values for an awakened Jewish mind

Two weeks ago, right before the beginning of Rosh haShana, I got a package from Amazon with a couple of books that I recently ordered. One was a thick, dense book that goes by the title of “Handbook of Denominations in the...

Aug 10, 2014, 11:48 PM

Destruction, consolation and love

In general, synagogues are built facing east. Why? Because Jerusalem was that way, at least for the Ashkenazi legislators that came up with that idea. When you go back to the Talmud, written in Babylon and consequently north-east of...

Jun 9, 2014, 5:16 PM

Gun control: From Judaism to Neurosciences and back

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a remarkable man. Born in Spain in 1852, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 in recognition for his work on the structure of the nervous system. The brain was his element, and not...

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Joshua Kullock is the rabbi at West End Synagogue, the only Conservative synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he moved to the US in September 2013.

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