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People are just NO DAMN GOOD!*: *But you still need ten of them to make a minyan

A rabbi must decide whether to follow his conscience or the will of his congregation. A young boy may sacrifice his one chance at popularity to do the right thing. A doctor clashes with a Jewish chaplain. These and other stories create vivid images and impart powerful lessons about the need for morality in an imperfect world.In addition to fictional fables and inspirational tales, author Martin Elsant includes nonfictional testimony from his father, a Jewish chaplain who attended to Holocaust survivors. As two survivors travel to Nuremburg to oversee one of the sessions, they reveal to him the true strength of the human spirit. Their journey is more captivating and heartrending than any fictional account could be.Elsant has chosen to share these seven stories with you to reveal the good and evil inherent in human nature. To Elsant, man is not fundamentally good or fundamentally bad. Instead, morality is a never-ending series of choices. By creating stories surrounding these decisions, Elsant provides a poignant look into the struggle every human faces when trying to do the right thing. He leaves it up to you to discover whether his characters truly listen to their better angels.Read more

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