Editor's note: This is one in a series of columns that are appearing monthly during the yearlong Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial. My great-great grandfather, Henry (Hirsch) Marks, became a Cincinnatian in 1851, and almost immediately became an active member of the Jewish community. Hirsch's involvement in the community, I now realize, has made me a better Jew and a better person because, as I learned about him and his wife, Babette, and about his son, Isaac, and Isaac's wife, Jennie, I learned how my family and I came to be Reform Jews, giving me yet another reason to celebrate being an...