This week Religion & Ethics Newsweekly shows how two families have made efforts to observe Passover in their own ways.

Designed for Pleasure (on exhibit now at the Asia Society and Museum) examines Ukiyo-e (pronounced oo-key-yo-ay), the paintings and woodcuts that depict the “floating world”: Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries.

Last year, the deforestation of the Amazon rose sharply after three consecutive years in decline. Alarmed, the Brazilian government responded by launching Operation Arc of Fire, a campaign to deter illegal logging that has sparked controversy since it began in February.

Do environmentalists utilize a politics of fear? Do progressive politics appeal to hopes and desires, or to nightmares? n+1 contributors Meghan Falvey, Alex Gourevitch, Mark Greif and Chad Harbach debate, as Benjamin Kunkel (co-founder of n+1) moderates. This event was presented on October 30, 2007 by the New York Public Library, with n+1, a [...]

Richard Price, whose eighth novel Lush Life (FSG) came out last month, discusses the decade-long shift in the cultural landscape of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Princeton Professor Stephen Paul is converting an unused plant in Trenton, NJ to process organic waste for fuel.

An interview with Rep. Robert Andrews who against the wishes of the party establishment has announced his intention to challenge Sen. Frank Lautenberg as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Congressman Andrews has served in the House of Representatives since 1990 and is promising to bring new vigor to the Washington, D.C. [...]

Just back from being under fire in Iraq, Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers Leila Fadel conveys what the war has meant to ordinary Iraqis and captures the dangers faced by soldiers and the reporters covering their efforts in Iraq. Leila Fadel will be taking viewer questions on The Moyers Blog.

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Watch a slideshow by R & E senior associate producer Patti Jette Hanley of Pope Benedict XVI celebrating Mass in front of 46,000 Catholics at Nationals Park in Washington. GO