Elliot Kukla

Rabbi Elliot Kukla provides spiritual care in San Francisco to people living with mental or physical illness and grief, as well as those coming to the end of life in hospice and nursing homes. He also co-directs a Jewish spiritual care hospice program. His articles on Judaism and gender diversity, illness and healing are published in numerous magazines and anthologized widely. Elliot was ordained by Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles in 2006 and trained in chaplaincy at UCSF Medical Center in 2007. He lives in Oakland with his partner and a mélange of animals.