Rachel Abrams (née Decter; January 2, 1951 – June 7, 2013)"Rachel Abrams, writer and artist, dies"
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Career

She was a visual artist and sculptor, and her writing appeared in several publications including ''

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. 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

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, 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.

Death

Rachel Abrams died on June 7, 2013, at the age of 62. She had been battling stomach cancer for three years. She was survived by her husband, Elliott Abrams, and their three children.

References

External links

Bad Rachel Blog
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