Honey Kessler Amado, of Beverly Hills, California, is a retired civil appellate attorney and past president of her synagogue, Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles. She is currently chair of Jewish National Fund’s Wadi Attir Task Force (Wadi Attir is a Bedouin-created environmental and economic project in the Negev), and is out-going co-chair of the Pubic Policy Committee of American Jewish Committee, Los Angeles regional office. Ms. Amado has studied at the Shalom Hartman Institute and at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Learning, both in Jerusalem, and has had the honor of auditing classes in the rabbinic program at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.