Organizers of a Jewish film festival in Malmö, Sweden, postponed the event indefinitely after none of the venues they contacted agreed to host it, a leader from the city’s Jewish community said on Sunday.

Several venues cited security concerns, “even though we’ve had a string of events this year that went without incident in celebration of 250 years of Jewish presence in Malmö,” Fredrik Sieradzki, who heads the Jewish Learning Centre in the city, told JNS.

Ola Tedin, initiator of JIFF, the Jewish International Film Festival, told the SVT broadcaster that among the venues that declined to host the festival was the Panora cinema, which is run by a nonprofit cultural association and receives municipal subsidies. Panora cited previous engagement and workload issues in refusing to host the

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