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The Limmud Festival 2024 will take place this December by Pendigo Lake, near Birmingham, offering an extraordinary celebration of Jewish learning, culture and community, with a respectable presence of Professor Ruvi Ziegler, a Hebrew University alumnus and law professor at the University of Reading.

Limmud festival 2024 will take place between Friday 20 December to Wednesday 25 December.

Ruvi is a British-Israeli law professor at Reading where he chairs the LGBTQIA+ staff network. Senior Research Associate at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and the London’s Refugee Law Initiative and Chair, ‘New Europeans UK’. He specialises in refugee law, International Humanitarian Law, and the relations between citizenship and political rights.

He will appear at Limmud with these lectures:

• Sunday 14:00 ‘Refugees Welcome’? How to Stop the "Stop the Boats" Rhetoric
• Sunday 19:45 Queering asylum: a "double whammy"
• Monday 17:25 What can the UK Government do to Promote a Long-term Political Resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
• Tuesday 16:15 LGBTQ+ Jewish Identities - Shifting Sands over Time and Space

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