THE POPE AND HIS JEWISH MAESTRO

Do you ever pinch yourself and wonder how you got here?”

That’s the question “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon asked American conductor Gilbert Levine in 2001.

“Every day,” Levine replied. “Every single day.”

At the time, Levine had just been bestowed with a Vatican knighthood by Pope John Paul II. It was the first time a musician had been knighted by a pope since Mozart. Aired in 2001 on “60 Minutes,” this is the story of how an unlikely friendship between a pope and a “nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn” helped changed relations between Jews and Christians forever.

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