Al Jazeera America aired a segment tonight about forced marriage, highlighting the little-known fact that it happens in the U.S. – and focusing on Fraidy Reiss, Unchained’s founder/executive director, whose family arranged her marriage in Brooklyn when she was 19.
“In the Orthodox Jewish community being single is considered very shameful ,” Reiss said in the segment. “So it was actually my worst nightmare that I would not be married off by the time I was 19.”
The segment is no longer available for online viewing.
