Family is for life

Celebrating the world we share

For over two decades, Mishpacha has reported, reflected, and given voice to the people, ideas, and culture shaping Orthodox Jewish life.

Our publications

MishpachaFamily FirstFamily TableTreeoTeenCalligraphyPendulum

20+

Years in print

1,100+

Issues and counting

250K+

Weekly readers

1K+

Contributors

500K+

Audio downloads

Our mission

Mishpacha is a weekly conversation between Jews who care deeply about their world and about each other.

Mishpacha was founded in 1987 on a dream. Publisher Eli Paley and editor Rabbi Moshe Grylak launched a phenomenon that would change the landscape of communication, journalism, and entertainment in the Orthodox Jewish world.

From a Hebrew-language publication in Israel, Mishpacha grew into an English-language weekly reaching communities across North America, Europe, Israel, and beyond, covering news, politics, culture, lifestyle, and the human stories that define Jewish life today.

What started as a single weekly is now a family of publications, more than a dozen podcasts, and a digital archive of 1,100+ issues. And we’re just getting started.

Issue #1103 — Mar 11, 2026

Our story

All good stories start with Mishpacha

Founding

1987

Year zero · Jerusalem

A weekly is born in a walk-up apartment

Eli Paley and Rabbi Moshe Grylak launch Mishpacha as a Hebrew weekly. First print run: 8,000 copies sell out in days.

Expansion

2004

English edition

English edition launches

Mishpacha Magazine launches in English for Pesach, reaching North American communities for the first time with a full-color main magazine and children’s magazine. Weekly distribution reaches 20,000 that year.

Growth

2004

Calligraphy

Calligraphy launch

Mishpacha introduces a literary supplement in Tishrei 2004, bringing readers exceptional Jewish fiction twice a year.

Milestone

2006

Family First goes weekly

A weekly written for women, by women

After launching as a monthly in August 2005, Family First becomes the first Orthodox women’s weekly in September 2006, marking a milestone in Jewish women’s publishing.

Digital

2018

Mishpacha.com gets a major redesign

The full archive, online

Mishpacha.com undergoes a major redesign, with an improved interface, searchable archives, subscriber access, and video capabilities.

Audio

2023

A growing podcast network

A podcast network takes shape

Home Front, Take 2, Money Talks, and ten others form a full audio network, with approximately 50,000 downloads in its first year.

Now

Today

20+ years

Celebrating 2 decades as a family.

Over two decades in English and nearly four in Hebrew. A newsroom that spans the globe, a media brand that’s a household name. We’re just getting started.

Our publications

Meet the Family

Read around the world. Discussed around the table.

Mishpacha Magazine

Since 2004 · Weekly

The flagship weekly, with news, politics, profiles, features, and opinion covering the full spectrum of Jewish life.

714 issues in archive Browse issues →

Family First

Since 2006 · Weekly

A weekly written for women, covering relationships, parenting, home, health, and the inner life. The most-read women’s title in the Orthodox world.

529 issues in archive Browse issues →

Family Table

Since 2009 · Weekly

Kitchens are the core of the home. Family Table brings you recipes, menus, technique and culinary inspiration for the Jewish kitchen.

294 issues in archive Browse issues →

Treeo

Since 2004 · Weekly

Launched as Junior in 2004 and reintroduced as Treeo in 2023, it brings young readers serialized fiction, biography, comics, current events, and plenty of fun.

248 issues in archive Browse issues →