נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>I don't need voting advice from my Rabbi.</p><p>"<a href="https://babka.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> today is notoriously cruel, corrupt and power-hungry. Now, religion is at risk of becoming the same.</p><p>On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service moved toward tossing out a decades-old ban on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/clergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clergy</span></a> endorsing <a href="https://babka.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/candidates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>candidates</span></a> from the pulpit, arguing in a court filing that such acts should instead be viewed as private matters, like a “family discussion concerning candidates.”</p><p>If that policy change is enacted, it may spell disaster for the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/rabbinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rabbinate</span></a>. The idea that what passes between a rabbi and their <a href="https://babka.social/tags/congregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congregation</span></a> is private represents an acute misunderstanding of what <a href="https://babka.social/tags/synagogues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synagogues</span></a> ought to be, and their function in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> life."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/opinion/754015/irs-pulpit-endorsements-rabbis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/opinion/754015/irs</span><span class="invisible">-pulpit-endorsements-rabbis/</span></a></p>