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US President Donald Trump privately met with six anti-Zionist rabbis, a meeting that came amid protests over Israeli military conscription policies. The meeting has drawn attention for signaling shifting dynamics within American Jewish political engagement on Israel-related issues. Separately, leaders of several Hasidic and other Jewish movements in the New York region reportedly discussed Israel's draft crisis directly with Trump in their own meeting, also raising concerns about federal prisoners, schools and housing. The overlapping engagements highlight intensifying lobbying from multiple factions of American Jewish leadership over Israel's conscription of ultra-Orthodox men and related domestic issues.