Jo-Ann Mort, a poet and jour­nal­ist, lives in Brook­lyn. She pub­lished her first book of poet­ry, A Pre­cise Chaos, at age 69. Co-author of Our Hearts Invent­ed a Place: Can Kib­butz­im Sur­vive the New Israel? and edi­tor of Divine Human Encounter: The Path to God in the Thought of Hes­chel, she is a wide­ly pub­lished ana­lyst and reporter on Israel.