Dr. Rivka Amado is a retired professor and adviser on applied ethics in bioethics and political ethics. She has taught at the Department of Political Science at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and at Stanford, Princeton, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara. In addition to her academic interests, she is a musician performing and teaching about the Sephardic heritage, focusing on Sephardic women’s spiritual experience and their role in preserving Sephardic culture.