Jewish Action

{{Short description|American Orthodox Jewish magazine}}

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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...[http://www.libraries.uc.edu/research/subject_resources/judaic_studies/journals.html Judaic Journals, Online Journals and News Sources], University of Cincinnati. Retrieved July 7, 2006.

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.{{cite web

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

As of 1984, Mordechai Schiller was the editor.{{cite news |last1=Gittelson |first1=Natalie |title=American Jews Rediscover Orthodoxy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/30/magazine/american-jews-rediscover-orthodoxy.html |access-date=3 August 2022 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 30, 1984}} Rabbi Matis Greenblatt was the literary editor.{{cite web | url=https://jewishaction.com/jewish-world/people/rabbi-matis-greenblatt-dedicated-editor-retires/ | title=Rabbi Matis Greenblatt: A Dedicated Editor Retires | date=March 18, 2014 }} The editor was Nechama Carmel as of 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.ou.org/jewish_action/info/guidelines |title=Writer's Guidelines |magazine=Jewish Action |access-date=August 17, 2011 |archive-date=July 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726211926/http://www.ou.org/jewish_action/info/guidelines|url-status=dead}}