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HLPF 2020: Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security by Grove Harris

HLPF 2020: Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security by Grove Harris

Ending Hunger and Achieving Food Security Intervention delivered Tuesday, July 7th, 2020, 3-4 pm Greetings. My name is Grove Harris, of the Temple of Understanding, and I am speaking on behalf of the Women’s Major Group. The COVID-19 crisis has already created a major...

UNwomen: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response

UNwomen: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1587107802446{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]We suggest reading this information provived by the UN Women on Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response: The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health issue. It is a...

HeForShe launches #HeForSheAtHome campaign

HeForShe launches #HeForSheAtHome campaign

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1587050658434{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]Our colleagues at UN Women have asked that we share this with you: As a consequence of the global COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people now find themselves  indoors....

Debt Crisis- the Larger Economic Picture of Homelessness

Debt Crisis- the Larger Economic Picture of Homelessness

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1583260413180{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] At the United Nations 58th Session of the Commission for Social Development, with a focus on homelessness, Grove Harris was able to present a critique of austerity...

Rabbi David Rosen on Faiths for Forests

Rabbi David Rosen on Faiths for Forests

Listen to Rabbi David Rosen, who as  "AJC’s International Director of Interreligious Affairs, has been advancing understanding and good relations between religious communities for more than forty years –  from the time he served as rabbi of the largest Orthodox Jewish...

Meet the 2019 Temple of Understanding Summer Interns!

Meet the 2019 Temple of Understanding Summer Interns!

The Temple of Understanding is excited to welcome our 2018 student interns to New York City and the United Nations! Read on to meet our interns and learn about the projects they will be pursuing this summer.

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