Welcome to Parlour Punch

This is Parlour Punch.

parlour punch: noun 1. a tiny pocket in the corner of Melbourne filled with hidden yidden. 2. ‘parlour’ – derived from the Old French word parleor or parler (‘to speak’). Original usage denoted a place set aside for speaking with someone, an 'audience chamber'. 3. ‘punch’ – an alchoholic beverage that mixed up and made of everything you can get your hands on. Or a simply, a punch in the face.


Here, we hope to create a supportive community of diverse and engaging individuals interested in Jewish life and the world around us.

We hope to meet once a month and participate in a focused discussion of a particular aspect of Jewish life. Informal, encouraging and self-directed, we seek to herald the impassioned conversations that took place in the salons of Paris and Berlin some generations past and create our own Melbournian Saturday Salon - a place to connect, listen, argue, absorb, respond and inspire.

Parlour Punch celebrates diversity - in religious beliefs, political outlook and moral attitudes - and seeks to stimulate engagement with Jewish life in all its ways.

Rants, raves and the points in between, Parlour Punch plans to conquer the ghetto one yid at a time.