The Gifts of the Jews Catholic author thanks Jews for Western values Review by April Witt for Miami Herald Published: Tuesday, April 14, 1998, If not for the Jews, no one would know to love justice, yearn for freedom, struggle for faith in one God or hope for a tomorrow better than today. Jews helped invent Western culture and without Jewish ideas and values there would be no civil rights movement, democracy or even history. That's the …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 723 total…totally alien to me. It came as a shock to me, over that period of time in Ireland, that the real difference between me and what I could feel of this alien culture was the Bible,'' Cahill said. ''The Bible was the matrix of the values that I really care about. It came as a real shock. I don't think it's taught that way, and I had a perfectly good education.'' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**