https://jewishinsider.com/2020/05/carolyn-bourdeaux-tries-again-in-georgia-congressional-race/
Bourdeaux — the descendant of Huguenots who left France in the 1600s — is married to Jeffrey Skodnick, a sales manager at LexisNexis who is Jewish. “I have a wonderful, very supportive set of in-laws,” said Bourdeaux, who sends her son to Hebrew school. “I really do feel a sense of deep connection with the Jewish community here.”
She has been developing that connection for some time. In the late ’90s, Bourdeaux went backpacking on a solo trip through Israel during a period in which she had time to travel between her studies.
“When I was there, I was very involved in trying to understand the Jewish experience,” she said. “I went to the top of the Masada, where the troops swear that it will never fall again, and I was just very, very moved by my visit there and my experience.”