You write: "Benedict's first official act as pope was a letter to Rome's Jewish community and he became the second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter a synagogue." Really? Peter spent a fair amount of time in synagogues and it is likely he was not unique among the early popes.
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from the article: New pope reaches out to Rome's Jewish community