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From Baseless Hatred to a World at War: Reversing Tisha B’Av

A Shot Heard Across Time It began, as world-changing events sometimes do, with a single act of violence on an obscure side street. On June 28, 1914, in the provincial city of Sarajevo, a young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip fired two shots, killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to…