Perhaps Leo Tolstoy (not a Jew) put it best when he said:

“The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religious. The Jew is the pioneer of liberty. The Jew is the pioneer of civilization. The Jew is the emblem of eternity.”

Read what Mark Twain (also not a Jew) said about us: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/concerningjews.html