Big Rubber Spiders and Teenagers Singing and Dancing   Nerves and Adrenaline Michaella Vilsa is a teen with enormous talent when it comes to singing and dancing, but lying deeper within her little soul is a huge funny bone screaming to get out.  “I love these people, they are so genuine,” Michaella explained about the cast of I Want it All, before she decided to find a rather large rubber spider upstairs at Stage Left in Orangeburg during a rehearsal and throw it onto one of her fellow actors who screamed and laughed at the absurdity.  The spider, along with dozens of Styrofoam heads dressed in wigs staring down at the 13 teens,...

20,000 from all corners of the world urge the IOC to Honor the Memory of the Munich 11 with one minute of silence at the London Olympic Games. WEST NYACK, NY – JCC Rockland’s petition on change.org is reaching staggering numbers. Momentum is building by the minute, with new organizations partnering by the hour. Initiated on April 13th, the petition has 20,000 signatures, in less than 19 days. https://www.change.org/petitions/jacques-rogge-minute-of-silence-at-the-2012-london-olympics At the 1972 Games in Munich, 11 Olympians from the Israeli delegation were kidnapped and murdered in the Olympic Village by terrorists. For 40 years...

At the end we just talked about basketball… 20 films, 10 countries, 18 days. Inspiring, provoking, uplifting, tear jerking, stirring, loving, embracing films. Great films created by intelligent people.  International films brought to the community through the JCC Rockland’s 9th annual Film Festival. Beginning on Sunday March 11, 2012 and running through April 1, 2012 the Film Festival showcases thought provoking films at: AMC Theatres: Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack JCC Rockland: 450 West Nyack Road, West Nyack Lafayette Theater: 97 Lafayette Avenue (Route 59), Suffern RCC Cultural Arts Center: 145 College Road, Suffern A...