After all the talk of boycott in the film world, kippot off to director Stephen Frears, whose new Britcom Tamara Drewe will open the Haifa International Film Festival next week. (Frears only discovered he was Jewish in his late 20s at his grandmother's 90th birthday party.)
Meanwhile, no honey cake for Sunday Times columnist India Knight, who tweeted this week that she has turned down spa trips to China and Israel.