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ARTS: Fisher Landau Center for Art was named one of the Top 10 private contemporary art museums in the United States by Artnet News.

The Fisher Landau Center for Art has been quietly making a name for itself in the borough’s art scene since it opened its doors in 2003.
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Although Dennis Ross touched on the prickly relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama— “they just have different world views”—and the current flare-up in Israel and Palestine—“the violence is based on completely fallacious claims”—he spent most of his time on the diplomatic history of the US-Israel relationship.

Former Mideast envoy Dennis Ross spoke to a packed house about Israel, America and the future of the two countries’ relationship Sunday at the Hevesi Jewish Heritage Library in the Forest Hills Jewish Center.
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VIP is one of the dozen or so nonprofit youth programs across the city that found itself without funding from the state Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

Policy changes forced understaffed and overworked nonprofits such as VIP, which has served its community for 25 years, to apply for funds through a request for proposal -- something no one at VIP knew how to do.

The meeting for Varied Internships Program, a nonprofit youth program, brought a dozen parents, former VIP participants, business participants and supporters to downtown Jamaica last week to figure out a way to save the program after it lost federal funding this year.
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Some of the buildings from the 1939 World’s Fair, including the museum, were used by the fledgling United Nations from 1946 until it moved to its current location on the East River in 1951.

John Tandana, president of the UNA USA Queens Chapter, looked out past the great glass windows of the Queens Museum at the Unisphere.
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