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Benedict’s papacy: a period of close Jewish relations with occasional bumps

Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his resignation of the papacy on Monday, was a doctrinal conservative who nevertheless won plaudits from Jewish leaders who engaged with him over the course of his eight-year tenure.

Jewish rebel pursues interracial romance in a controversial Dutch film

An enormously popular film about a young Jew’s obsession with black women has touched off a heated argument over latent racism in the Netherlands. JTA’s Cnaan Liphshiz reports.