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uy Meirson, an artist-in-
residence at Michigan State
University, uses fictional
cinema to relate his experiences in
the Israeli military. He wrote Rock the
Casbah, a 2012 finalist for the Israeli
Academy Award for Best Feature Film.
The feature, made in Hebrew and
shown with English subtitles, tells
about a young soldier during the first
intifada at the end of the 1980s and will
be Meirson's subject 7-9 p.m. Sunday,
March 17, at the eighth annual MSU
Israeli Film Festival hosted by the MSU
Jewish Studies Program.
The free festival, running March
17-18 in the Communication Arts &
Sciences Building on the MSU campus
in East Lansing, will showcase three
other films and offer discussion ses-
sions about them.
"I'll be talking about Israeli films that

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represent the army and experiences
of soldiers:' says Meirson, 44, who is
spending this semester teaching screen-
writing in Michigan.
"The first intifada was the kind of
conflict in which soldiers were dealing
with very young teenagers throwing
stones and doing all kinds of demon-
strations.
"Recent Israeli films dealing with
the army are dealing with conflict and
telling the stories of soldiers in the
Lebanon War of 1982, a war of soldiers
against soldiers. This kind of war is not
very common anymore:'
Two Sunday screenings begin with
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring
(1-3:15 p.m.), which deals with the
aftermath of a car accident. The
Matchmaker (3:30-5:45 p.m.) tells of a
young boy working in a movie house
showing only love stories.
Dolphin Boy (7-9 p.m. Monday) is a
documentary about devastation caused
by human violence and the healing

f a play about a Jewish fam-

ily waiting for the Rapture is
not quirky enough, wait until
you meet the characters. It is hard to
imagine a wackier group sharing the
same stage. It is also hard to imagine a
funnier and more enter-
taining depiction of topics
such as 9-11, depression
and teenage angst than
End Days, written by Deborah Zoe
Laufer and directed by Tony Casselli.
A co-production between JET, the
Williamston Theatre and Michigan
State University, the comedy centers on
the offbeat Stein family: Arthur (John
Manfredi); his wife, Sylvia (Emily
Sutton-Smith); and their 16-year-old
daughter, Rachel (Lydia Hiller).

Arthur has been chronically
depressed since the 9-11 attacks that
killed all 65 of his co-workers. Sylvia,
who has "found Jesus," is fraught with
new-found religious fervor. Rachel
takes teenage rebellion to a new level,
snarling at her parents while wear-
ing Goth-style ensembles that include
brightly colored wigs, reptile-print
tights and black leather
clothing adorned with metal
studs and chains.
A wonderful addition to
the mix is Eric Eilerseen as Nelson, the
socially awkward neighbor and not-so-
secret admirer of Rachel. With his gui-
tar and white Elvis costume, Nelson is
a teenager in need of a family, and the
unconventional Steins are a perfect fit.
Topping off the zaniness is actor
Andrew Head, who does an outstand-
ing job in the dual role of a Starbucks

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