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Director Ondi Timoner's "Last Flight Home" documents the final days of her father Eli's life as he waits to have an assisted death in California.

The Sundance Film Festival 2022 lineup will premiere new films from Tig Notaro, Amy Poehler, Jesse Eisenberg and many more

Earlier this year, when my father was in the last weeks of his life, he told us a story that none of us knew or remembered. In the 1960s, when he was running a regional roofing company in Florida that became a multistate, multimillion-dollar conglomerate, he saw that his unions were weaker because they were racially segregated. “It didn’t make any sense,” he told us. “These guys would have been stronger if they worked together.” So he went to the head of the Black union and then the head of the white union and told them they needed to integrate. And they did, he said, making his com...

My father’s lesson: Jews must value labor even when they become management April 16, 2021 9:49 am Eli Timoner stands with his family, including future rabbi Rachel Timoner, on a plane from the airline he founded. (Courtesy of Rachel Timoner) Advertisement (JTA) — Earlier this year, when my father was in the last weeks of his life, he told us a story that none of us knew or remembered. In the 1960s, when he was running a regional roofing company in Florida that became a multistate, multimillion-dollar conglomerate, he saw that his unions were weaker because they ...