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UNORTHODOX: A Jewish Handmaiden’s Tale of Forced Marriage, Sex, and Violence -Fraidy Reiss
In this episode, I’m talking to Fraidy Reiss, a victim of "Unorthodox". As a Orthodox Jewish woman, Fraidy was forced into a violent marriage arranged by her family using a matchmaker. A true Handmaiden's Tale of Horror. She was trained and pressured by the Orthodox Jewish Community to be raped, forced into a violence marriage, and treated as a second-class citizen in every way possible. She wasn’t allowed to drive, go anywhere without being covered head-to-toe in a long-handmaiden outfit, and required to cover her hair with a itchy, hot, dreadful wig.Fraidy Reiss had never been alone with…
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