Elie Kaplan Spitz

ELIE KAPLAN SPITZ is a Conservative rabbi and scholar specializing in spirituality and Judaism, serving Congregation B'nai Israel in Tustin, California, since 1988. His books include Increasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom and Guided Meditations to Strengthen and Calm Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit, Healing from Despair: Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World, and Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose.

Spitz holds a Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. He served as a member of the Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Law and Standards for twenty years, as an Adjunct Lecturer of Jewish Law and Pastoral Rabbinics at American Jewish University from 1999 to 2008, and as a lecturer at Chapman University from 2011 to 2014.

Elie Kaplan Spitz’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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