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CORPORATE EVENTS CEREMONIES & RECEPTIONS TRAY CATERING/SHIVA TRAYS SHOWERS & REHEARSAL DINNERS ON-SITE & OFF-PREMISE CATERING Phone (248) 432-5654 Fax (248) 785-0123 CHOLOV YISROEL KOSHER Jewish Community Center 54 March 14 • 2013 Email milkhoney@theepicureangroup.com www. eepicureangroup am kosher JN End Days, Comedy At JET I Ronelle Grier Contributing Writer I Exquisite Catering Impeccable Service BAR & BAT MITZVAHS 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 EPIC KOSHER CATERIN A DIVISION OF MILK & HONEY GLATT KOSHER Adat Shalom Synagogue 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 REV IEW