Worth noting is the important work being done by Crossroads and its director, Caryn Green. Crossroads is specifically geared to the Anglo population, and it would be useful for your readership to be aware of its activities.
It is a chilly, late Thursday night in downtown Jerusalem, and the mood among the teenage runaways hanging out there isn’t as weightless as usual. Recently there has been a run of tragedies. Between mid-February and early March, three young street people in the capital died – an 18-year-old hanged himself on the eve of being drafted, a 21-year-old deliberately electrocuted himself, and a 24-year-old was beaten to death in a fight. All three had run away from home and been on and off the streets for years, all had problems with drugs, alcohol and/or mental health.
American Jewish comedians perform “Crossroads Comedy,” a show benefiting Crossroads, an organization for English-speaking youth at risk in Jerusalem.
For some U.S. students in yeshivas, Jerusalem can be a tempting place; last week’s arrests are shining a light on a taboo subject.
In Jerusalem, troubled English-speaking teens hang out in groups of their own, separated from native Israelis. The Crossroads NPO helps get them off the streets.
Crossroads Jerusalem 2011