Some believe that he was the son of Rabbi Akiva, who is referred to in the Talmud as Hebrew: הקר "the bald".
[3] Joshua rebuked Eleazar ben Simeon, who had delivered Jewish criminals over to the Romans: "You vinegar son of wine [= "degenerate scion of a noble father"], how long will you give the people of our God unto death?"
The Mishnah cites few of Ben Karha's halakhic commentaries in his name, and the few ones that are recorded are in conjunction with another tanna.
Thus, the Babylonian Talmud cites Karha's practice on the authority of Eleazar ben Azariah: "Similarly, R' Yehoshua ben Karcha would declare pure due to [the authority of] R' Eleazar ben Azariah" in Tosefta, Tractate Negaim, 7:3.
In the Jerusalem Talmud on the authority of Yochanan ben Nuri in Kil'ayim, 4:2 and his ruling along with Jose ben Halafta in the matter of the construction of Jericho in Sanhedrin, 14:2.