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INDEPENDENT LIVING • ASSISTED LIVING Voted “Best Retirement Community” AND “Best Independent Living” 2013 by Jewish Standard readers. 2 Jewish standard nOVeMBer 8, 2013 JS-3* Page 3 The roots of Israel’s wild boars You can blame the Philistines for Earlier pig bones, however, showed bring pigs to the Holy Land. the same DNA as in other Near East- That’s the finding of a study of ern boar populations. F.Y. I . genetic and archeological evidence “The major shift,” according to the tracing the origins of Israel’s wild report, “took place around 900 b.c.e.” boars published in the journal Sci- which corresponded to the local ar- Paddling to Israel ence Reports this week. rival of the “Sea People” — better ● Woot! I yelled out at the empty sea Bergen County. A team of archaeologists and known as the Philistines of the Bible. “ around me” — From Dov Neimand’s Mr. Neimand, who keeps kosher, had zoologists followed up on an earlier The Sea People originated in Greece, blog, describing his exuberance on de- to turn down many offers from people study, which found that the DNA of Turkey, or Cyprus — and according parting Naples, destination Haifa. he met along the way, rejecting offers Israel’s boars was closer to that of to the bones they left behind, they to share meals that often sounded as if European boars than those in Egypt raised and ate much more pork than No ordinary traveler, Mr. Neimand, who grew up in Teaneck and whose they would have been delicious. “I just or Syria. did the indigenous inhabitants of the tell them I am a vegetarian, and they This study replicated those find- Land of Israel. parents still live there, is kayaking his way to the Holy Land. understand that,” he said. ings in contemporary animals, and The article can be found at http:// Mr. Neimand has another rule: Pad- tested preserved boar bones to find bit.ly/js-boar This is Part 2 of his epic journey. The first part began and ended in dling only a half-day on Friday and not their DNA. LARRY YUDELSON 2010, when he set out from Barcelona, at all on Shabbat. As he did on the first Spain. That trip was beset by delays part of the trip, he will try to find syna- and problems, including, at one point, gogues along the way. Starbucks promises a kosher tea party the theft of all his gear. Mr. Neimand, Besides a good supply of lentils for 30, a certified kayak instructor, made it nourishment, Mr. Neimand manages as far as Naples, but then had to return to stuff apparel, a two-way radio, an ● Having conquered coffee, Starbucks to his graduate studies in mathematics emergency beacon, a camp stove, a is now moving into tea. The coffee gi- at Bar-Ilan University. sleeping bag, and a computer aboard ant’s newest venture, He expects the present 1,700-nau- his craft. Teavana, launched tical-mile route to take about six The trek has been an unconvention- with a tea bar on the months, but delays in getting his kayak al education for him. “When you go Upper East Side of delivered to him to Italy already have outside the walls, you learn the most Manhattan. set back his timetable. His travels will amazing stuff,” he said. Starbucks CEO take him along the coasts of Greece, “I’ve met some super friendly peo- Howard Schultz says he Turkey, and Cyprus, and thence to Is- ple, and some super mean people,” he doesn’t expect the new rael. He will go ashore each night and said in an interview before he left. Mr. venture to be as big as either camp or find friendly lodging. Neimand has a colorful flare for telling the coffeehouse chain. Mr. Neimand’s trip requires strength his story and is blogging along the (“Tea lacks the major and stamina, and he spent many hours way; as he tells it, his story is part trav- caffeine count,” he paddling on his visit to the States last elogue, part adventure tale. Check him explains.) But he is summer. He has roots in Teaneck and out at kayakdov.wordpress.com. hoping to draw in kashrut-keeping misconception that kosher is a graduate of the Torah Academy of CHARLES ZUSMAN consumers. status is conveyed via a “It will be [kosher]. It hasn’t been blessing. 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