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The document further states that by 'observing the Torah the Jew receives a share in communion with God, just as Christians do through Christ."

You can't have it both ways. There is only ONE way.

"I AM the way, the truth and the life. NO MAN (includes Jews) comes to the Father but THROUGH ME." - Jesus

What part of Jesus' words doesn't the Pope and heretical theologians understand?

Here's the parts of the Vatican statement on "sharing our Christian Faith with the Jews" which the New York Times and other similar "news" sources did NOT see fit to quote:

... There are not two paths to salvation according to the expression "Jews hold to the Torah, Christians hold to Christ." Christian faith proclaims that Christ's work of salvation is universal and involves all mankind. God's word is one single and undivided reality which takes concrete form in each respective historical context.
Since God has never revoked his covenant with his people Israel, there cannot be different paths or approaches to God's salvation. The theory that there may be two different paths to salvation, the Jewish path without Christ and the path with the Christ, whom Christians believe is Jesus of Nazareth, would in fact endanger the foundations of Christian faith.
Confessing the universal and therefore also exclusive mediation of salvation through Jesus Christ belongs to the core of Christian faith. . . . [T]he Church and Judaism cannot be represented as "two parallel ways to salvation."
Christians are nonetheless called to bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ also to Jews, although they should do so in a humble and sensitive manner, acknowledging that Jews are bearers of God's Word, and particularly in view of the great tragedy of the Shoah [i.e., the Holocaust] (GCGI 40).
Jesus ... calls his Church from both Jews and Gentiles (cf. Eph 2:11-22) on the basis of faith in Christ and by means of baptism, through which there is incorporation into his Body which is the Church (GCGI 41).
It is and remains a qualitative definition of the Church of the New Covenant that it consists of Jews and Gentiles, even if the quantitative proportions of Jewish and Gentile Christians may initially give a different impression [GCGI 43]

You got any problem with those doctrines?

The real mystery is:

Why do so many FReepers trust "news" sources which leave out the key doctrinal quotes?