Jewish Action

Jewish Action is an American Orthodox Jewish magazine published by the Orthodox Union.

The magazine generally presents a Modern Orthodox viewpoint, and covers "topics of interest to an international Orthodox Jewish audience... [including] articles "related to current ongoing issues of jewish life and experience, human-interest features, poetry, art, music and book reviews, historical pieces and humor...[1]

Published since 1940, it is printed quarterly, with a special Passover issue. Its regular quarterly editions have a mail readership of 50,000, and its Passover issue has a distribution of 100,000. Though generally sold via mail subscription, it is also distributed through retail stores and food outlets throughout North America.

A 148-page "The Jewish Action Reader" book was published in 1995.[2]

The magazine's website contains PDF copies of previous issues dating back to 1998.

As of 1984, Mordechai Schiller was the editor.[3] Rabbi Matis Greenblatt was the literary editor.[4] The editor was Nechama Carmel as of 2011.[5]

  1. ^ Judaic Journals, Online Journals and News Sources, University of Cincinnati. Retrieved July 7, 2006.
  2. ^ "The Jewish Action Reader - I".
  3. ^ Gittelson, Natalie (September 30, 1984). "American Jews Rediscover Orthodoxy". The New York Times. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  4. ^ "Rabbi Matis Greenblatt: A Dedicated Editor Retires". March 18, 2014.
  5. ^ "Writer's Guidelines". Jewish Action. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2011.