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]

Topics

The Summer 5777/2017 issue included a short follow-up[6] to a Winter 5776/2016 article[7] about the Minhag of standing for the groom, and then a bit later, for the bride, as they enter the room where the wedding ceremony occurs. The writer challenged readers married more than 30 years to look at their wedding album:

"Most likely you will not see anyone standing while you and your spouse walked down the aisle,"
closing with calling it "a fascinating demonstration of how minhagim evolve."

Notes

  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. ↑ https://jewishaction.com/jewish-world/people/rabbi-matis-greenblatt-dedicated-editor-retires/
  5. ↑ "Writer's Guidelines". Jewish Action. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  6. ↑ p.2
  7. ↑ by Ari Zivotofsky


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