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Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American television journalist serving as chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent for NBC News.
Mitchell was raised in a Jewish family of Ashkenazi descent with Russian-Jewish roots. Her father, Sydney Mitchell (born Rubenstein), owned and led a furniture manufacturing business in Manhattan and served as president of Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle. Her mother, Cecile Mitchell, worked in an administrative capacity at the New York Institute of Technology.
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