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DREAMS COME TRUE
TELZ STONEJOURNEYTO
THE ALIYAH
OF ZEISEL BLUMENFELD
Life Response of Maryland – T elz Stone – or Kiryat Ye’arim, as it is officially known –
In Our 27th Year! perched like a sentinel above the main road to Tel Aviv,
has long aroused my curiosity. Only a 12-minute ride
410-833-1067 out of Yerushalayim, with no traffic, this chareidi out-of-
town-style community is home to both well-established
“Seniors who use a PERS system live in their home six families and a growing young population.
years longer than those that don’t!” Longtime resident of Telz Stone, Mrs. Zeisel Blumenfeld
(formerly Mandelcorn) graciously invites me into her home
(AC Nielson Study as quoted in The Senior Solution: A Family on a busy erev Shabbos to share her aliyah journey and her
Guide to Keeping Seniors Home for Life) life in Telz Stone. Her married daughter is bustling around
the kitchen preparing food for Shabbos, and her adorable
• Providing 24hour monitored grandchildren mill about their beloved Savta as we sit by the
PERS (Personal Emergency Response Systems) kitchen table. Beneath her calm, poised, go-with-the-flow
• Local, Personal service demeanor, I know that here is a woman of great accomplish-
• We install and service equipment in your home ments.
• Works with all types of phone service- Even no Phone Service
• Free Installation in our local area when you mention this ad Mrs. Blumenfeld’s story begins in 1971, when she and her
husband, Rabbi Yehuda Mandelcorn, z”l, fueled by a love for
Eretz Hakedosha, made aliyah as newlyweds, settling in
Geula to be close to his kollel. The Mandelcorns had some
family in Eretz Yisrael. A grandmother and aunt were living
in Yerushalayim, and Rabbi Mandelcorn’s parents and sister
moved to Eretz Yisrael shortly after, as well. Even so, Mrs.
Blumenfeld recalls feeling very alone, especially because she
was one of the only Americans in Geula. Ultimately, however,
Mrs. Blumenfeld was very happy with her life in the Holy
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TELZ STONEJOURNEYTO
THE ALIYAH
OF ZEISEL BLUMENFELD
Life Response of Maryland – T elz Stone – or Kiryat Ye’arim, as it is officially known –
In Our 27th Year! perched like a sentinel above the main road to Tel Aviv,
has long aroused my curiosity. Only a 12-minute ride
410-833-1067 out of Yerushalayim, with no traffic, this chareidi out-of-
town-style community is home to both well-established
“Seniors who use a PERS system live in their home six families and a growing young population.
years longer than those that don’t!” Longtime resident of Telz Stone, Mrs. Zeisel Blumenfeld
(formerly Mandelcorn) graciously invites me into her home
(AC Nielson Study as quoted in The Senior Solution: A Family on a busy erev Shabbos to share her aliyah journey and her
Guide to Keeping Seniors Home for Life) life in Telz Stone. Her married daughter is bustling around
the kitchen preparing food for Shabbos, and her adorable
• Providing 24hour monitored grandchildren mill about their beloved Savta as we sit by the
PERS (Personal Emergency Response Systems) kitchen table. Beneath her calm, poised, go-with-the-flow
• Local, Personal service demeanor, I know that here is a woman of great accomplish-
• We install and service equipment in your home ments.
• Works with all types of phone service- Even no Phone Service
• Free Installation in our local area when you mention this ad Mrs. Blumenfeld’s story begins in 1971, when she and her
husband, Rabbi Yehuda Mandelcorn, z”l, fueled by a love for
Eretz Hakedosha, made aliyah as newlyweds, settling in
Geula to be close to his kollel. The Mandelcorns had some
family in Eretz Yisrael. A grandmother and aunt were living
in Yerushalayim, and Rabbi Mandelcorn’s parents and sister
moved to Eretz Yisrael shortly after, as well. Even so, Mrs.
Blumenfeld recalls feeling very alone, especially because she
was one of the only Americans in Geula. Ultimately, however,
Mrs. Blumenfeld was very happy with her life in the Holy
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