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M
AIDA SUE PORTNOY, 
80, died on Oct. 19, 
2020. 
Active for many years in 
Jewish communal affairs, 
Maida was the 
first female 
president of 
Junior Division 
of Federation 
and spent 
many years working for 
the Detroit Jewish Book 
Fair and the Detroit Jewish 
Music Festival. 
She also had a mid-life 
career as a journalist and 
wrote hundreds of arti-
cles for the Oakland Press, 
Michigan Woman, Monthly 
Detroit and the Detroit Jewish 
News, among others. 
She is survived by her 
children and their spouses, 
Rachel Portnoy and Adam 
Eichner, and Eddy Portnoy 
and Mira Blushtein; her 
grandchildren, Kobi and 
Jonah Eichner, and Ben and 
Luli Portnoy. (She really 
loved those kids).
Mrs. Portnoy was the 
wife of the late Robert G. 
Portnoy; the daughter of 
the late Arnold E. Frank 
and the late Edith Selker 
Frank; and the sister of the 
late Richard S. Frank.
Internment was through 
Ira Kaufman Chapel. 
Contributions may be made 
to the Anti-Defamation 
League or Kadima Mental 
Health Services. 

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