Jeff Zucker’s nine-year tenure as president of CNN ended in an abrupt fashion on Feb. 2, days after he acknowledged to company lawyers what had long been rumored in television news circles: He was in a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust, CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer.

Ms. Gollust had worked alongside Mr. Zucker for more than 20 years, starting as a senior publicist at NBC’s “Today” show in 1997, when Mr. Zucker, then in his early 30s, was executive producer. Their relationship is central to Mr. Zucker’s resignation, which was forced by WarnerMedia, CNN’s parent company. WarnerMedia’s standards policy states that personal workplace relationships must be disclosed immediately to “avoid a conflict of interest.”

Long Island GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin has nominated Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work as negotiators of the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Morocco sand Bahrain.

Kushner is former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and was a White House advisor during Trump’s term; Berkowitz was Kushner’s deputy.

Kushner and Berkowitz were nominated for the prize last year by former Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz.

In testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker credited security training with helping him and several congregants from Congregation Beth Israel, his synagogue in Colleyville, TX, engineer their escape. They had been held hostage for 11 hours. Rabbi Cytron-Walker joined other Jewish leaders in calling for a doubling of federal security funding for nonprofits. “Increasing funding for and making appropriate adjustments to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program would be an incredibly positive step in the right direction,” he said.

[In a Feb. 24 New York Times op-ed, Rabbi Cytron-Walker addressed the “sacred obligation to love the stranger.” He wrote: “I opened the doors of my synagogue and unknowingly welcomed the individual who would later attack me and my fellow congregants. That I opened the door will always weigh heavily on me. Still, I remain committed to the idea of welcoming and caring for the stranger and living that value.”]

Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, was sworn in as Nassau County executive on Jan. 3, the first Jewish person to hold that office. Blakeman had been serving as councilman of Hempstead, the county’s largest town, since 2015. He defeated the incumbent Democrat, Laura Curran, by 2,150 votes in the November elections.

Prior to his official inauguration, Blakeman hosted a number of local rabbis and Jewish community leaders for a mezuzah installation at his new office. In a Zoom interview with the Forward, Blakeman, 66, said, “Hashem and spirituality are important parts of my life. That’s where I derive my strength.”

He is a member of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, an Orthodox congregation. Despite his Orthodox affiliation, Blakeman said he feels a connection to Jews of all denominations.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced that it will recognize Jon Stewart as the winner of its 23rd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The ceremony will be held on April 24.

Steward, who was host of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on Comedy Central for 16 years, stepped away in 2015 to pursue filmmaking and social activism on behalf of 9/11 first responders. Last fall, he debuted a biweekly comedy show on Apple TV+ to discuss global issues and the way forward.

Deborah F. Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center said in a statement: “For more than three decades, Jon Stewart has brightened our lives and challenged our minds as he delivers current events and social satire with his trademark wit and wisdom. For me, tuning into his television programs over the years has always been equal parts entertainment and truth.”

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, 83, the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, has announced his retirement, providing President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with an opportunity to name a new justice.

Justice Breyer, the oldest member of the court, was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton. On the bench, his demeanor was often studded with colorful hypotheticals, demonstrating a lively curiosity and an open mind. His goal, he has said, was always to reinforce democracy and to supply workable solutions.             Speculation has already begun on who might succeed Justice Breyer.

Michael Steinhardt, a billionaire philanthropist for Jewish causes, has agreed to surrender stolen antiquities valued at $70 million and to never again acquire antiquities, according to an agreement filed Dec. 6 in Manhattan Supreme Court. In return, Steinhardt, co-founder of Birthright, an organization that sends young Jews on free trips to Israel, will not face criminal charges for illegally smuggling the items.

Steinhardt, 81, is not the only billionaire to have faced scrutiny over antiquities trafficking. So too has Steve Green, the evangelical founder of the craft store Hobby Lobby, who amassed 40,000 artifacts from the Middle East for the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Green helped launch the museum and is a major benefactor.

Steinhardt has funded some of the most prestigious Jewish nonprofits. He and Charles Bronfman, a billionaire heir to the Seagram liquor fortune, co-founded Birthright Israel, which has sent more than 700,000 young Jews on free trips to Israel. Steinhardt also financed a network of Hebrew charter schools, and a natural history museum in Tel Aviv that bears his name. A gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is named for him, and he has given millions to New York University, which named its Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development after him.

Steinhardt said in a prepared statement issued by his attorneys that the items “wrongfully taken by others will be returned to their native countries,” The Associated Press reported.