"It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home," Theodor Adorno wrote during World War II, while exiled from his native Germany in Los Angeles. For Jews—subject to centuries of persecution and dispossession, or having put down roots amid an unstable Middle East—a sense of displacement appears central to their identity. Many of the entries in this year's New York Jewish Film Festival (organized by the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center) feature Jewish characters struggling humorously or tragically with the idea of home, a concept that... More >>>