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Hasidic leaders visit Trump: A delegation of Hasidic leaders from the New York area met with President Donald Trump in the White House this afternoon. Plans of the meeting had drawn criticism from some Jewish Trump supporters because they included the two grand rabbis of the Satmars, a group that is anti-Zionist for religious reasons. Following the meeting, Hasidic political operative Yossi Gestetner told reporters that the meeting was “an opportunity for the first time in over 50 years for the president of the U.S. to meet with the grand rabbis of the largest Hasidic community, visibly Jewish people such as myself.”