JTA’s longtime foreign editor, Mitchell Danow, has died in Japan. Danow, 54, died of a heart attack March 20 in Kyoto. Born and raised in New York, Danow attended Yale, where he studied philosophy. He worked for Newsweek and the Forward before coming to JTA in 1993.
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