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https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-861254 French Rabbi's house 'completely destroyed' in arson attack | The Jerusalem Post

French Rabbi's house 'completely destroyed' in arson attack | The Jerusalem Post

While authorities continue to call it an arson attack, "no one wants to call it antisemitic," their daughter, Sarah Perets Lahiani, said.

A rabbi and his family’s apartment in Grenoble, France, was completely destroyed in a suspected arson attack on Saturday, July 5, the rabbi’s daughter told Radio Judaica on Wednesday.

Rabbi Yhia Lahiani and Rebbetzin Batcheva Lahiani had left for a special celebratory meal at the synagogue with the rest of their family when, less than 10 minutes later, three successive explosions were heard in the apartment.There is nothing left of the family’s home.

She explained that the investigation is still ongoing, and that police had found traces of accelerant, which they believe is kerosene, on the stones outside the house.

“It was a two-story apartment at the bottom of a large building, and there was a small garden in front where my parents had a little barbecue with a gas bottle attached to it.

“The neighbor told my parents that her son saw some young people throwing something – we don’t know what because we weren’t there – but they saw young people passing by and throwing things just before the house exploded. According to the police’s deductions so far, it seems that they set the barbecue on fire, and there was also an electrical panel, so the fire spread and the explosion occurred.”

“My parents have lived in Grenoble for over 45 years,” she said. Mostly, they had lived without any issues, she said. October 7 changed this.

“After October 7, it wasn’t ‘Rabbi Jacob’ anymore, it was ‘Jewish bastard.’

“My father had his car tires slashed multiple times to the point where he had to park his car in front of the house because he didn’t trust the parking lot anymore.

“My mother, of course, had cameras around the school. We caught a young man several times with a gun, firing at the school. We even had people yelling – I experienced this myself when I went to visit them – and shouting ‘Palestine, Gaza.’ And just after the fire, some young people passed by again, shouting ‘Jewish bastard.’”

French rabbi’s home burned to the ground during Shabbat in ‘arson attack’ - The Jewish Chronicle

The rabbi's daughter has claimed that police suggested they are treating the blaze as deliberate but that ‘no one wants to call it antisemit

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"Jewish law teaches that the person harmed is certainly not obligated to forgive a perpetrator who has not done the work of repentance. And even if repentance is wholehearted and demonstrable, if apologies have been offered and amends made, how and when forgiveness factors in is not always straightforward. Is forgiveness something the victim can choose to do at any point? Definitely. Can it sometimes be a useful part of the healing process? For sure. Is a victim obligated to forgive? Well, as we rabbis are fond of saying, that’s a whole other conversation. It’s worth mentioning that forgiveness isn’t the same as reconciliation—returning to some sort of relationship that will continue into the future. Regardless, I want to spell out that, in Judaism, a person can do real, profound, comprehensive repentance work and even get right with God—experience atonement—even if their victim never forgives them. Repentance and forgiveness are separate processes." On Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg

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July 2025: Washington DC, US The US Capitol police arrest 27 rabbis after an act of civil disobedience inside the office of the US Senate majority leader, John Thune. The members of the Jewish clergy were seeking to draw attention to the need for immediate action to provide food aid to Gaza’s population Photograph: Sue Dorfman/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock