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All Israel is responsible for one another

14 August 21 • 2014

Barbara Lewis
Contributing
Writer
I
ree Kosher Hot Dogs Here" read the lawn sign at a corner house in
Huntington Woods last Sunday afternoon.
On the driveway, Rabbi Robert Gamer of Congregation Beth Shalom
in Oak Park manned two grills, serving up 250 hot dogs to neighbors
struggling to recover from the Aug.11 deluge that swamped 75 percent of
the basements in Huntington Woods and Oak Park.
"So many people are hurting and are so busy digging out that I decided
we, as a congregation, needed to help them," Gamer said. "I didn't want to
do a dinner that people would have to make an effort to get to. I wanted to
do something in the neighborhood so people could just walk over — mem-
bers and non-members, Jews and non-Jews."
More than 100 people took the rabbi up on the invitation. Several Beth
Shalom congregants donated other goodies. Sandra and Josh Lerner of
Huntington Woods brought five watermelons. Nicole and Jeff Rothenberg
of Huntington Woods brought a keg of Labatt's, a half-dozen six-packs of
craft beer and several gallons of lemonade.
"This was a really nice break," said Mary Ann Corrigan, a neighbor of the
rabbi's, who said she'd been cleaning since the flood hit on Monday night.

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Huntington Woods neighbors enjoyed a moment away from flood-related
woes outside Rabbi Gamer's home.

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