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 central, sweeping premise of The Gifts of the Jews, the latest book by Roman Catholic scholar and best-selling author Thomas Cahill.

''The Jews gave us the Outside and the Inside -- our outlook and our inner life,'' writes Cahill, who will be at Temple Judea in Coral Gables tonight to talk about the book.

''We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact -- new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation;......

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