Professor Jean-Claude Lasry and his wife Arielle discuss with their five children the important role the Moroccan heritage has played in their lives and each shares their connection to this heritage.

Professor Jean-Claude Lasry is an academic and prolific writer on the Sephardic community. A leader of the Montréal Sephardic community during its formative years, one of his foremost accomplishments was his role in establishing the École Maïmonide, Canada’s first Jewish school with French-language instruction.

Lasry arrived in Montreal in 1957 as a member of the third Moroccan Jewish family to settle in the city following Morocco’s independence and increasingly difficult conditions for Jews. Lasry became intrigued by issues of social integration and reception of the new wave of immigrants, both from the established anglophone Ashkenazi Jewish community and the surrounding French community. These topics served as both the focus of much of his future research and as motivation for his community involvement.

Eytan, Arielle, Karene, Yohan and Aurelie join him here to share their stories and growing up Moroccan in Montreal.

Attributions:

- Vanessa Paloma - AVRAM AVINU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqizmoj9n74&list=PLGhpKVCbiejTOe6Y1QYxiPWwg2mZt2R4w&index=2

- Samuel Torjman, Thomas - Judeo-Muslim soundscapes in Morocco - a Tradition of Musical Dialogue 

- VANESSA PALOMA - MOSES SALIO DE MISRAYIM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1qeR-NV30&list=PLGhpKVCbiejTOe6Y1QYxiPWwg2mZt2R4w&index=1

- Leah Avraham performance