Richard Maize To Aid Elderly, Disabled During Jewish Holidays

Richard Maize To Aid Elderly, Disabled During Jewish Holidays

Rochelle and Richard Maize have announced that they will take an active role in helping both the elderly and disabled during the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana (New Year) and Yom Kippur. Richard Maize says that he will be aiding three seniors between the ages of 83 and 90, picking them up at their homes, taking them for Jewish prayer services and then taking them home.

All of the seniors and disabled live in the Los Angeles area, including an amputee who does not have the ability to drive. Richard and Rochelle Maize will use their own car to transport the seniors and disabled.

"Many seniors don't want to disturb friends and or relatives," says Maize. "What they don't realize that it is a pleasure for many to take them to Temple on the holiest day of the Jewish year. It is part of the process of giving and I will help them as much as I can. It is just what Rochelle and I do." Rochelle and Richard Maize have opted to help the elderly on their own, not in association with any other charity beyond the Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation.

The Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports and contributes volunteer and financial resources to causes locally in the community and worldwide by supporting meaningful programs focusing on art, culture, family services and health care that work to help people live more fulfilling lives.

Richard Maize has generously supported organizations and causes including the American Cancer Society, Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, Hurricane Katrina, Los Angeles Police Foundation, the Israel Maccabiah Sports Games and Cedars Sinai Board of Governors.

Richard Maize and his wife, Rochelle Maize, are longtime benefactors of the American Cancer Society, among many other organizations, and Richard Maize has been recognized for his efforts on behalf of more than a dozen charitable groups and community projects.

The Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation supports an extraordinary number of foundations, organizations, and non-profit groups. The Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports and contributes volunteer and financial resources to community and global causes by supporting programs focusing on art, culture, family services, and health care.

The Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation’s efforts also help people with cancer and those who care for them lead live more fulfilling lives.

Richard Maize on Frank Sinatra and Israel

Living in Beverly Hills among many celebs brings about much discussion and gossip.

Sinatra starred in the pro-Israel movie "Cast A Giant Shadow"

But one man who lived here really stands tall.

IF YOU LIKED FRANK SINATRA BEFORE, NOW YOU'RE GONNA LOVE HIM NOW!

Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) may have been one of A me rica 's most
famous Italian Catholics, but he kept the Jewish people and the State of
Israel close to his heart, manifesting life-long commitments to fighting anti-Semitism and to activism on behalf of Israel.

Sinatra stepped forward in the early 1940s, when big names were needed to rouse America into saving Europe's remaining Jews, and he sang at an "Action for Palestine " rally (1947). He sat on the board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and he donated over $1 million to Jerusalem's Hebrew University , which honored him by dedicating the Frank Sinatra International Student Center.

(The Center made heartbreaking headlines when terrorists bombed it in 2002,
killing nine people.) As the result of his support for the Jewish State, his
movies and records were banned in many Arab countries

Sinatra helped Teddy Kollek, later the long-serving mayor of Jerusalem but
then a member of the Hagannah, by serving as a $1 million money-runner that
helped Israel win the war.

The Copacabana Club, which was very much run and controlled by the same
Luciano-related New York mafia crowd with whom Sinatra had become

enmeshed, happened to be next door to the hotel out of which Hagannah members were operating. In his autobiography, Kollek relates how, trying in March 1948 to circumvent an arms boycott imposed by President Harry Truman on the Jewish fighters in Eretz Yisroel, he needed to smuggle about $1 million in

cash to an Irish ship captain docked in the Port of New York .

The young Kollek spotted Sinatra at the bar and, afraid of being intercepted by
federal agents, asked for help. In the early hours of the morning, the
singer went out the back door with the money in a paper bag and successfully
delivered it to the pier.

The origins of Sinatra's love affair with the Jewish people are not clear
but, for years, the Hollywood icon wore a small mezuzah around his neck, a
gift from Mrs. Golden, an elderly Jewish neighbor who cared for him during
his boyhood in Hoboken, N.J. (years later, he honored her by purchasing a
quarter million dollars' worth of Israel bonds). He protected his Jewish
friends, once responding to an anti-Semitic remark at a party by simply
punching the offender.

Time Magazine reported that Sinatra walked out on
the christening of his own son when the priest refused to allow a Jewish
friend to be the godfather. As late as 1979, he raged over the fact that a
Palm Springs cemetery official in California declared that he could not
arrange the burial of a deceased Jewish friend over the Thanksgiving
holiday; Sinatra threatened to punch him in the nose.

Sinatra famously played the role of a Jewish pilot in Cast a Giant Shadow,
the 1966 film filmed in Israel and starring friend Kirk Douglas as Mickey
Marcus, the Jewish-American colonel who fought and died in Israel's war
for independence (Sinatra dive-bombs Egyptian tanks with seltzer bottles!)
He donated his salary for the part to the Arab-Israeli Youth Center in
Nazareth , and he also made a significant contribution to the making of
Genocide, a film about the Holocaust, and helped raise funds for the film.

Less known is Sinatra in Israel (1962), a short 45-minute featurette he made
in which he sang In the Still of the Night and Without a Song.

He also starred in The House I Live In (1945), a ten-minute short film made to
oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, which received an Honorary
Academy Award and a special Golden Globe award in 1946.