Rachel Abrams
{{Short description|American writer, editor, and artist}}
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{{Infobox artist
| birth_name = Rachel Decter
| birth_date = January 2, 1951
| death_date = June 7, 2013
(aged 62)
| spouse = {{marriage|Elliott Abrams|1980}}
| father = Moshe Decter
| mother = Midge Decter
| image = Rachel Abrams.jpg
}}
Rachel Abrams (née Decter; January 2, 1951 – June 7, 2013)[https://stljewishlight.org/news/world-news/rachel-abrams-writer-and-artist-dies/ "Rachel Abrams, writer and artist, dies"], stljewishlight.com; accessed May 24, 2022. was an American writer, editor, sculptor, and artist. She was the daughter of Moshe Decter and Midge Decter and wife of Elliott Abrams.
Career
She was a visual artist and sculptor, and her writing appeared in several publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and Commentary, which was edited first by Abrams' step father, Norman Podhoretz, and later her half brother (both were children of Midge Decter), John Podhoretz.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/nyregion/05decter.html|title=Moshe Decter, 85, Advocate for Soviet Jews, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 5, 2007|accessdate=January 17, 2019|last1=Martin |first1=Douglas }}
Abrams was a board member of the Emergency Committee for Israel. A critic of liberal thinkers, she kept a politically oriented blog called Bad Rachel. In the 1970s, she spent three years working on Kibbutz Machanaynim in the Galilee.{{cn|date=May 2024}}Of the Palestinians who kidnapped Gilad Shalit, Abrams wrote:
... the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women — those who aren't strapping bombs to their own devils' spawn and sending them out to meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others — and their offspring — those who haven't already been pimped out by their mothers to the murder god — as shields, hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they're traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.Clifton, Eli (October 19, 2011) [http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/19/347624/the-emergency-committee-for-israel-palestinians-savages/ "Emergency Committee For Israel Board Member Calls Palestinians 'Savages', 'Unmanned Animals', 'Food For Sharks'"], ThinkProgress.org, accessed June 17, 2016.
In 1987, Abrams stated that she "would like to take a machine gun and mow Anthony Lewis down" after Lewis, a journalist, called her husband a "coward" and criticized him for whitewashing human rights abuses.{{cite news|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|title=Elliott Abrams in the Hour of Combat|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/01/13/elliott-abrams-in-the-hour-of-combat/1539a4e6-83c7-4a5c-b377-3769694b0d24/|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 13, 1987|accessdate=May 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216201900/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/01/13/elliott-abrams-in-the-hour-of-combat/1539a4e6-83c7-4a5c-b377-3769694b0d24/?utm_term=.7bf2d26a780a|archive-date=February 16, 2019}}{{cite news|last=Crowley|first=Michael|title=Elliott Abrams: From Iran-Contra to Bush’s democracy czar.|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/02/bush-s-unlikely-democracy-czar.html|work=Slate|date=February 17, 2005|accessdate=May 4, 2024}}
Death
Rachel Abrams died on June 7, 2013, at the age of 62. She had been battling stomach cancer for three years.{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/artist-and-writer-rachel-abrams-succumbs-to-cancer/|title=Artist and writer Rachel Abrams succumbs to cancer|website=The Times of Israel |access-date=2022-02-01}} She was survived by her husband, Elliott Abrams, and their three children.{{cite web | url=https://forward.com/opinion/178271/artist-and-writer-rachel-abrams-dies/ | title=Artist and Writer Rachel Abrams Dies | date=June 8, 2013 }}
References
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External links
- [http://badrachel.blogspot.com/ Bad Rachel Blog], badrachel.blogspot.com; accessed June 17, 2016.
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Category:American women sculptors
Category:American women bloggers
Category:American women editors
Category:American women non-fiction writers
Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers
Category:Deaths from stomach cancer in the United States