The Bagel Theory

 It all started when I was back in university in Montreal, sitting in a large theatre styled classroom when a previously-unknown young woman sat down next to me, intoduced herself and said ” Oye Gevult, I just had a bagel and gefilte fish for lunch”.

You see I am an orthodox Jew and was wearing my kippah but my new freind, who was Jewish, knew that she did not “look” Jewish, nor did she wear any identifying signs like a Magen David or a Chai necklace. The nuanced way that she announced her Jewishness to me was through what I called “bageling” and that incident launched the bagel theory.

Doodie Miller