By Lyn Julius, February 4, 2011
A Jewish teacher journeys 1,000km from Paris to a remote community in southern Morocco. The boys whom he has come to teach sit on the floor in their djellabas, learning Torah.
This is how Jews were "educated" in Muslim countries until the Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU), a schools' network founded in 1860 in France, transformed their lives.
In the early days of the AIU, teachers would sometimes build classrooms, provide meals and send for drugs to treat diseases.