Malmo Jewish Community may need to dissolve itself

The Jewish Community of Malmo, Sweden, may need to dissolve itself by 2029 unless its current circumstances change, community spokesman Fredrik Sieradski told JTA on Tuesday.

Sieradski confirmed that the shutdown was a “possible scenario” following a report Friday in Expressen in which a local politician said the Jewish community had said it may “die out” in the coming decade, partly because of alleged indifference by authorities to the community’s security needs.