Jewish leaders were given a seat of honor last Friday at Pope John Paul II’s funeral. “They treated the Jews in a manner that was highly respectful, and they treated us as the heads of an important religion,” the chairman of the World Jewish Congress, Rabbi Israel Singer, told JTA from Rome.
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