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then as gizbor (treasurer). He is also an 
active participant with the Mayor’s Youth 
Council for Farmington/Farmington 
Hills, where he was recently elected secre-
tary and helps plan events that engage the 
cities’ youth and volunteers with the local 
community.

ETHAN MARCUS

Ethan Marcus, 17, of 
Birmingham is a 
junior at Groves 
High School. His 
devotion to charity 
and helping others 
has been and contin-
ues to be his life 
focus.
When Ethan 
turned 13, he donated 10% of his bar 
mitzvah gift money to the Charles A. 
Main, M.D., Pediatric Cancer Survivor 
Scholarship Fund at Beaumont Hospital. 
The fund is designed to assist pediatric 
cancer patients with college and career 
opportunities.
He is co-president of Birmingham 
Bloomfield Community Coalition’s Youth 
Action Board (YAB), an organization whose 
mission is to practice and raise awareness 
for life strategies as a substance-free teen-
ager. Ethan regularly takes part in YAB 
functions that focus on mental health, drug 
avoidance, alcohol avoidance and other 
stressors common to teens his age.
He is also a member of the ORT Teen 
Executive Board, helping to plan and 
organize activities for teenagers about the 
importance of charitable giving. 
Last year, in partnership with his best 
friend and his (then 13-year-old) brother, 
Ethan founded Bagel Boys Delivery Service. 
After taking internet orders all week, the 
boys run a food delivery service on Sunday 
mornings featuring bagels, cream cheeses, 
lox and rotating seasonal niceties, such as 
ice cream sandwiches, flowers, cookies and 
vegetable boxes. 
During the pandemic, Ethan has made 
certain that free bagels and monetary dona-
tions were delivered to Beaumont Hospital’s 
health care team working on the COVID-
19 virus. Ethan, along with his partners, 
also picked different charities to receive 

donations from some of the business’s 
proceeds, such the Birmingham Public 
School Parent/Teacher Associations and 
the Birmingham Bloomfield Community 
Coalition. Donations have exceeded $3,300. 

ESTEE MOSS

Estee Moss, 17, of 
Bloomfield 
Township is a senior 
at Bloomfield Hills 
High School and an 
active member of 
BBYO where she 
currently serves as 
the regional n’siah 
(president). Her goal 
as president this last year was to make sure 
that teens felt included instead of isolated 
and she participated in and oversaw many 
re-imagined programs for teens. Estee pre-
viously served on her chapter Ahavah 
BBG’s executive board and has received 
awards including Rookie of the Year and 
the Menorah Pledge Award. 

Within BBYO, Estee was the moving 
force behind two successful communi-
ty-wide charitable opportunities, including 
a clothing/household goods drive and 
a bottle/can recycling drive that raised 
$4,000 for the International Service Fund. 
Estee also loves to write and had articles 
published in The Shofar, BBYO’s national 
teen newspaper. She received top recog-
nition for her writing in the Congregation 
Shaarey Zedek Jeffrey Weisberg Memorial 
Essay Contest.
Estee is an active member of Congregation 
Shaarey Zedek where she participates in 
Teen Talks with the Rabbis. Estee learned 
how to chant the first Torah portion of 
Rosh Hashanah and has had the honor of 
reading Torah for the congregation on Rosh 
Hashanah every year since she was 14.
Estee is always looking for opportunities 
to support her community. Last spring, she 
volunteered for Mediumize, an organiza-
tion that shops for and delivers groceries 
to immuno-compromised members of our 
community. She also held a canned food 
drive for Yad Ezra, and has volunteered for 
J-Serve, Fall Fix-up and PeerCorps Detroit. 
Estee has a passion for singing and 
theater and has competed in the MI Solo 

Vocal Music Association Solo & Ensemble 
each year, performing pieces in Catalan 
and Italian, and receiving No. 1 ratings. 
Estee is an active member of her school’s 
National Honor Society, Forensics Team, 
Key Club, DECA and the International 
Thespian Society/Broken Leg Theater 
groups where she performs annually in her 
high school musicals and plays.

LILY PAZNER

Lily Pazner, 17, of 
Bloomfield Hills is a 
junior at Cranbrook 
Kingswood. She is 
on the Dean’s List 
and writes for the 
school paper, the 
Crane Clarion. In 
2020, Lily 
participated in 
Cranbrook’s World Affairs Day by leading 
a presentation and workshop on Title IX 
to fellow students. She is now focusing on 
getting the English reading curriculum to 
be more inclusive of women and minori-
ties.
Lily has been active in BBYO and is 
on the board of the Aliyah chapter. She 
founded a youth group for Jewish teens, 
focusing on Judaism and feminism 
called “Dinah.” This project was a dream 
of Lily’s and, along with a close friend, 
they used the downtime brought about by 
COVID to bring it to fruition. The focus 

“A FOCUS ON 
HELPING ELEVATE 
THE OPPORTUNITIES 
AND VOICES OF 
OTHERS REMAINS A 
FUNDAMENTAL 

OBJECTIVE FOR ME.”

— CAROLINE KRELL

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