just in case you didn't believe my dad's side is jewish:
(yeah, that's me.)
he wasn't always so conspicuous. that beard was gone by the time i was five, ne'er to be seen again.
there are plenty of shots like this where it's easy to think he's palestinian - but it's italian/jew/cree/french, from what i know.
his skin lightened a lot as he aged, to the point where he looked like an elder chomsky. really. it was almost uncanny.
so, it's always been weird to see these pictures of him as a young man, looking so notably ethnic.
i mean, that's me in both shots. but, i don't remember it. and, rates of change as they are, people can transform before your eyes without truly noticing it.