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Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, waits to address the state Senate in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, March 27, 2017. Bell said he was upset that a public radio reporter from Chattanooga did not identify herself as a member of the media when she attended a meeting between the senator and high school students, but that he did not call for her to be fired. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against Israeli army conscription in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say they serve the Jewish nation through religious study and prayer and fear integration in the army threatens their insular, pious lifestyle. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against Israeli army conscription in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say they serve the Jewish nation through religious study and prayer and fear integration in the army threatens their insular, pious lifestyle. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against Israeli army conscription in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say they serve the Jewish nation through religious study and prayer and fear integration in the army threatens their insular, pious lifestyle. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against Israeli army conscription in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say they serve the Jewish nation through religious study and prayer and fear integration in the army threatens their insular, pious lifestyle. The sign reads: "We and our sons are ready to die to preserve our souls and not enlist in the army." (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against Israeli army conscription in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say they serve the Jewish nation through religious study and prayer and fear integration in the army threatens their insular, pious lifestyle.The sign on the left reads: "Israeli police: I'm also waiting for you at 3 a.m. There is no need for handcuffs" and on the right: "We and our sons are ready to die to preserve our souls and not enlist in the army." (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in a protest against Israeli army conscription in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say they serve the Jewish nation through religious study and prayer and fear integration in the army threatens their insular, pious lifestyle. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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President Trump's 33-year-old son Eric came to Sean Hannity's defense Tuesday morning, calling the Fox News host a great patriot who sticks to his beliefs. (Fox News)
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A poster for the Smurfs, The Lost Village, movie is seen in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak. The PR firm promoting Smurfs: The Lost Village says it removed Smurfette from promo posters in central city of Bnei Brak so as not to offend its ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents. The deeply conservative ultra-Orthodox chafe at the public display of womens images. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Members of Israel's Knesset speak Monday at a roundtable discussion with leaders of the major Jewish communities in the U.S. during the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Photo by Laura Kelly/The Washington Times
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Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 27, 2017. The AJC, a 111-year-old global organization based in New York, has a long history of engagement in the region. It was the first Jewish organization to call for recognizing German unification after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it supported Central and Eastern European nations as they worked to become democracies and join the European Union and NATO. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 27, 2017. The AJC, a 111-year-old global organization based in New York, has a long history of engagement in the region. It was the first Jewish organization to call for recognizing German unification after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it supported Central and Eastern European nations as they worked to become democracies and join the European Union and NATO. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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In a Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, windows in a building are marked for demolition at the Lied Renaissance Center building, in Omaha, Neb. Demolition of the Lied Renaissance Center, formerly Methodist Midtown Hospital, began in mid-March and is expected to be completed by late June. By summertime, the new Salvation Army building at 36th and Cuming Streets will no longer be in the shadow of its 110-year-old predecessor. (Matt Miller/The World-Herald via AP)/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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In a Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, the old entrance to the Lied Renaissance Center building is framed between dismantled light posts in Omaha, Neb. Demolition of the Lied Renaissance Center, formerly Methodist Midtown Hospital, began in mid-March and is expected to be completed by late June. By summertime, the new Salvation Army building at 36th and Cuming Streets will no longer be in the shadow of its 110-year-old predecessor. (Matt Miller/The World-Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this March 21, 2013 file photo, Montana state Rep. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell speaks on the house floor in Helena, Montana. Regier, now a state senator, has proposed a bill poised to clear the state legislature in March 2017, which would forbid the use of religious and foreign laws in state courts that don't grant the same rights and privileges as the state or U.S. constitutions. While the legislation does not specifically mention Sharia law, both supporters and opponents refer to them as "Sharia law bills." Sharia law is what governs Islamic societies. (Eliza Wiley/The Independent Record via AP)
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, people attend Sunday worship at the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. Churches are working on projects that once would have been forbidden to them, including efforts on HIV-AIDS prevention, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, medicine distribution, training of farm workers and disaster relief.(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 19, 2017 photo, Esther Zulueta, left, doctor and member of the William Carey Baptist Church, attends Sunday worship in Havana, Cuba. The church council estimates that there are about 25,000 evangelical and other Protestant houses of worship across the country. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, Reverend Joel Ortega Dopica, President of the Council of Churches of Cuba, speaks during an interview in Havana, Cuba. "There is religious freedom in Cuba" Ortega Dopica says. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
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In this March 16, 2017 photo, patients with special needs attend therapy sessions in the William Carey Baptist Church in Havana, Cuba. Like the Roman Catholic church, the island's dominant denomination, evangelical churches have begun providing social services once monopolized by the Communist government. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
