If you are not from our community: Mr. Jacob Bruer was the son of Rav Bruer. He was a beloved educator and was the principal for many yers. He was a student of the famed Wurzburg Seminary. He made Aliyah and spent his last twenty years in Jerusalem.

Short clip shown at the dinner features a young Jerry Bechhofer Z’l. Mrs. Pinkover was the gym teacher in Frankfurt. Several members of the Realschule faculty continued in NY. Can anyone name a few? Suggested names by viewers: Tante Nettie and Dr. Spier obm.

A personal tribute to an influential teacher in our school, expressing in my own way some of what needed to be said upon his recent passing. The music is “Velvet” by “The 8th Day”, a song they wrote in tribute to their teacher.