President Biden is expected to name Jeffrey D. Zients, his former coronavirus response coordinator, as the next White House chief of staff, replacing Ron Klain, who has run Mr. Biden’s White House since the president took office two years ago. Klain has announced that he will step down sometime after the State of the Union address on Feb. 7.

An entrepreneur and management consultant, who organized the largest vaccination campaign in American history, Mr. Zients is widely respected in Biden circles as a strong and capable leader. He has been entrusted with some of the trickiest management tasks of the past two Democratic administrations — to fix the botched website of Mr. Obama’s new healthcare program, and to run Mr. Biden’s Covid-19 pandemic through successive variant waves.

Over the past two decades, he made Fortune magazine’s list of the 40 richest Americans under 40 (just two slots below a young Elon Musk). He reported assets between $76 million and $419 million on 2022 financial forms.

The president is likely to continue keeping Mr. Klain close, according to an unnamed source, The New York Times reported.

• Award-winning broadcaster Chris Berman, an anchor for ESPN’s “SportsCenter” since 1979 and the face of the network’s football coverage, is a member of the 2023 class inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Other inductees are:
• Rudi Ball, ice hockey: Represented Germany in the 1936 Winter Olympics. During his career, he won eight German championships and a bronze medal in the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
• David Blatt, basketball: Career included playing at Princeton University and professional basketball leagues in Israel, Italy, Russia, Turkey and Greece, and a stint as head coach of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.
• Ilona Elek-Schacherer, fencing: Competed in three Olympics for Hungary, winning two gold medals and a silver medal. She also won 10 gold medals, five silver medals, and two bronze medals in World Championships.
• John Frank, football: Is a two-time Super Bowl champion tight end with the San Francisco 49ers. Played football at Ohio State University, and co-founded the Israeli bobsled team.
• Deena Kastor, track & field: An eight-time national champion in cross-country, who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics and holds U.S. records for the 10-mile, 15-kilometer, and 8-kilometer women’s road races.
• Merrill Moses, water polo: A three-time Olympic water polo goalkeeper, earned a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won the 1997 NCAA championship with Pepperdine University.
• Moran Samuel, rowing: An Israeli world champion paralympic rower and basketball player. Paralyzed in her lower body, she played for Israel in the 2013 European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Frankfort, and represented Israel at the Paralympic Games in 2012, 2016 and 2020, winning bronze and silver medals. In 2015, she won a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships.
• Mordechai Spiegler, soccer: Considered among the best Israeli soccer players ever. Was captain of the Israeli Olympic team in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He has scored 32 national team goals.
• Dwight Stones, track and field: A two-time Olympic bronze medalist in high jump. He won 19 national championships in his 16-year career.
• Ariel Ze’evi, judo: Won a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics, four European championships, and a silver medal at the 2001 World Championship.

Jewish boxer Dmitry Salita will be inducted into the New York Boxing Hall of Fame. He fought professionally from 2001 to 2013 with a record of 35-2-1 and 18 knockouts. An Orthodox Jew, he said that refusing to fight on Shabbos helped give him balance.

In 2010, he became a boxing promoter, and in September was named Promoter of the Year.

Steven Spielberg won his third Golden Globe at the ceremony held Tuesday, Jan.10, this time for directing The Fabelmans, a semiautobiographical film about his own upbringing. The Fabelmans also won for best drama, Spielberg’s fourth in that category.

Composer Justin Hurwitz won his fourth Golden Globe, this time for the score of Babylon, about the final days of the silent era of film. In his acceptance speech at the Jan. 10 ceremony, he thanks his parents, Gail Halabe Hurwitz and Ken Hurwitz, and the public schools he attended for offering music classes.

When Josh Shapiro was sworn in as Pennsylvania’s governor on Jan. 17, he took the oath of office on a stack of three Hebrew Bibles, including one that was on the bimah at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue during the 2018 mass shooting that killed 11 worshippers.

“The Bible survived without damage, and Tree of Life is honored by its presence at the inauguration,” said Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, spiritual leader of the synagogue.

Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s outgoing attorney general, also used the same family Bible present at each swearing-in since he was first elected to the Statehouse in 2004. The third Bible — a copy of Readings From the Holy Scriptures for Jewish Soldiers and Sailors, belonged to Herman Hershman, a WWII veteran who earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star on D-Day. The Bible was on loan from the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

A group of four interfaith leaders — Community Leader Shamshul Huda of Lansdale’s North Penn Mosque, Rabbi Greg Marx of Maple Glen’s Congregation Beth Or, Monsignor Stephen P. McHenry of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Ambler, and the Rev. Charles W. Quann of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Spring House — delivered the invocation.

The biggest scandal to shake the crypto-currency world became a criminal matter on Dec. 12 when Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the crypto exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas and charged by the Department of Justice with eight criminal counts, including lying to investors, wire fraud on lenders and customers, and conspiring to violate campaign finance laws.

The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed civil charges alleging that he misled investors while defrauding customers from the company’s inception, transferring customer deposits to his trading firm, Alameda. When a rush on withdrawals revealed an $8 billion shortfall, FTX declared bankruptcy. A hearing to extradite Bankman-Fried from the Bahamas is scheduled for February.