Temple of Understanding

06/25/2026

Hear more from Grace and other young professionals about how their internship experience shaped their global affairs career path at the Eco-Justice for All webinar, Monday, June 29 at 11:00 AM EST. Link to register in bio!

06/22/2026

“My mayor Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish. My Christian Dior, Knicks in four!” The chant became an instant rallying cry, capturing New York’s basketball fervor in the runup to the Knicks’ NBA championship win. But it also pointed to something deeper – the unity of New Yorkers of different faiths and cultures.

“Different backgrounds, different beliefs, different stories, but one heartbeat,” 23-year-old Knicks fan MD Ahnaf Hossain, who popularized the chant in a viral TikTok video, wrote on Instagram. “In a world that often tries to divide us, New York showed what makes it special – people standing up for each other. The energy wasn’t just about the game. It was about unity. About cheering together, celebrating together, and proving that this city is strongest when we stand side by side.”

“My mayor Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish. My Christian Dior, Knicks in four!” The chant became an instant rallying cry, capturing New York’s basketball fervor in the runup to the Knicks’ NBA championship win. But it also pointed to something deeper – the unity of New Yorkers of different fait...

06/19/2026

Twenty years ago, the Temple of Understanding opened its doors to its first group of summer interns. Since 2005, hundreds of young people have passed through that program, sat in those same rooms near the UN, prepared their first presentations, and walked away changed in ways that are not always visible at the time. Many of them are now years into careers in diplomacy, international affairs, law, and policy, carrying pieces of that early experience with them into rooms far larger than the ones they started in.

This session is a chance to bring some of them back together, as a facilitated conversation among people who once sat where this year’s interns are sitting now. It is a space to reflect honestly on what the internship gave them, where their paths actually led (not always where they expected), and what they have come to make of the institutions they now work inside, the UN, foreign ministries, NGOs, and multilateral bodies.

REGISTER HERE:

https://templeofunderstanding.org/from-intern-to-professional-internship-alumni-reflect-on-their-global-affairs-career-path/

06/10/2026

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05/19/2026

Happening on May 21! Link in bio.

(With a quick change in speakers!)

05/18/2026

20 years. 100kg a day. Now just 6kg a season.
Link in bio!

05/11/2026

Register for the FREE webinar!

Youth. land and the Future of Food:

https://templeofunderstanding.org/youth-land-and-the-future-of-food/

05/03/2026

Speaker information and other details coming soon!

04/22/2026