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January 2, 2010

My Big Fat Jewish life blog is featured in The Huffington Post and The Algemeiner Journal as well as The Jewish Journal. Chava has also written for Farbrengen Magazine, Soul Wise Magazine, Chabad.org., L’chaim magazine, Los Angeles Community Links, N’shei Chabad Newsletter, as well as COLlive. Chava’s latest endeavor is a dark humored memoir where she tries to make sense of why G-d laughs while she consistently attempts to make plans.

Aside from writing, she is also a singer/ songerwriter.  To check out her latest single entitled “Eternally Hopeful” produced by the very talented Ben Marcus (Eighth Day Band) go to itunes. She’d appreciate you rocking out while listening after you’ve bought the song for your ipad, ipod, iphone and every other technical device you may own from Apple. (Feel free to contact Chava and book her for concerts, she’d really like that.)

An award winning filmmaker, she has produced films such as “Becoming Rachel,”  that has debuted in Film festivals across the globe as well as written shorts like “Chasing Spielberg,” which was featured on “Funny or Die”. Check out her ” title=”music page” target=”_blank”>music page has a few other songs she’s recorded you may enjoy as well….please feel free to fan her, facebook her, email her, cook for her, or send her presents.

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