Elie Spitz is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation B'nai Israel of Tustin, CA, where he served for more than three decades as senior rabbi. He participated as a member of the Rabbinical Assembly Committee of Law and Standards and as a Global Justice Fellow for the American Jewish World Service. He taught at the American Jewish University in LA, and undergraduates at Chapman University.

A graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Boston University School of Law, Spitz is the author of four books including Does the Soul Survive?: Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Past Lives, and Living with Purpose (2000, 2015?sold close to 25,000 copies and has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese), and with Rabbi Jack Riemer, Duets on Psalms: Drawing New Meanings from Ancient Words (2023).

He lives in Orange County, CA.