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Whoops! In my column this week, I misattributed the provenance of the term “bagelling,” which actually belongs to Doodie Miller, who maintains a web site devoted to the concept. Here’s how he explains the term:

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 [friend], 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.