Episode 45: The Biography of Sally Baer

Sally Baer—our Director of Student Services and Assistant Head of School—is Bornblum. She is one of the pioneers who started in the genesis of this school 36 years ago and has continued to come back every day.  In this episode, Dr. Weiss had the privilege of having a conversation with Sally—who will be honored at Bornblum's 36th Anniversary Gala on March 30, 2025—about her childhood growing up in Memphis, the moment she became enamored with Judaism at the age of 12, Israeli dancing with her Baron Hirsch Sunday School teacher, her experience teaching an 81-student class, the conversation she had with her lifelong friend (and Bornblum teacher) Annette Eisenberg about taking a job at an ambitious school that didn't even have a building yet, how Bornblum and children in general have transformed, and what gets her up every morning to come to work.