There are moments when Jewish parents sit at the Shabbat table and realize that history has stopped being something they explain — and has become something they must prepare their children to live inside.

The Chanukah massacre at Bondi Beach was one of those moments.

Not because antisemitism suddenly returned, and not because warning signs were unclear, but because an old truth reasserted itself in a way that can no longer be softened: Jews are once again being targeted as Jews, and the line between memory and the present has thinned to almost nothing.

That is when stories change. They stop being lessons about the past and become instructions for survival. Many of us grew up hearing difficult stories at the Shabbat table.

We were told about a time when Jews were taken away and held in terrible places. During the Holocaust, Jews were told they were no longer allowed to be Jewish. If........

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