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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Charles Bronfman at 90: On Israel, anti-Semitism, the diaspora and Donald Trump
Description: It’s not every day that the Israel Philharmonic performs private birthday concerts from the stage of the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv. But if you happen to be Charles Bronfman—and it's your 90th birthday, which it was on June 27, 2021—and you’ve got your name on the building because you were the main donor when the cultural centre was renovated—then you get Schubert, Brahms, balloons and surprise video greetings from Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman and the new incoming president of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog.
Bronfman is a Canadian billionaire, philanthropist and recipient...