London school warns on alcohol and drug use - 'so common in the Jewish community'

The Amy Winehouse Foundation is running a series of assemblies and workshops at Hasmonean High School to educate pupils about the dangers of drug and alcohol use — an issue “so common in the Jewish community”.

Parents have been invited to attend an information session next Tuesday evening.

In an email to parents, the school’s pastoral leaders said it had “sadly become clear that alcohol and drug use is becoming more prevalent in the Jewish community”.

More young people were “experimenting with a variety of drugs and see much of this as recreational and as part of growing up.