Maybe the oversight had something to do with the fact that he's spent at least part of his vacation practicing reciting the Psalms in Hebrew so that when he is in Cologne for World Youth Day, next month, and visits the synagogue there (infuriating a certain wing of Catholicism), he can pray the Psalms with his Jewish hosts in Hebrew.
The first letter of his Pontificate was a birthday greeting to the elderly Chief Rabbi of Rome, together with a personal invitation to the Rabbi to be a guest of honor at the papal installation (which the Rabbi could not do because of the Holy Days).
Oh yes, the Jerusalem Post has every right to say that "so far Benedictus XVI falls short".
Stick a sock in it.
VERY well put!