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 …
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…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**