Belleville's Porchfest Became a Way to Show Up for a Community After a Synagogue Shooting

Belleville, Ontario, held its annual Porchfest on Saturday — a neighbourhood music festival that CBC reports also served this year as a way for people to show support for the community after last weekend's shooting outside a synagogue. The attack took place on Yom Kippur; it seriously injured a police officer and left the gunman dead. Turning a local ritual into a visible act of solidarity is a modest answer to violence, but it is the kind neighbours can actually offer: they cannot undo what happened, only demonstrate that the street still belongs to everyone who lives on it.