On Friday night, as Jews will gather to commemorate their liberation from captivity in Egypt, there’s one line during the traditional Seder that will sadly have more resonance this year than at any point in my life: “It is not only one that has risen up against us to destroy us; rather, in every generation, they rise against us to annihilate us.”

Growing up Jewish in modern America means feeling more secure than Jews have felt at any point in our history. I never experienced much in the way of anti-Jewish sentiment as a child. Tales of the Holocaust were always haunting, but I never feared anything like that could happen again, especially in America.