Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer.
30 Facts About Dennis Prager
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Dennis Prager is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show.
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Dennis Prager gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics.
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Dennis Prager was born in Brooklyn to Hilda Prager and her husband, Max Prager.
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Dennis Prager attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, where he befriended Joseph Telushkin.
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Dennis Prager went to Brooklyn College and graduated with a major in history and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Dennis Prager holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University.
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Dennis Prager became the national spokesman for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
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The start of Dennis Prager's career overlapped with a growing tendency among American Jews, who had been staunchly liberal, to move toward the center and some to the right, driven in part by the influx of Jews from the Soviet Union.
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Dennis Prager ran the Brandeis-Bardin Institute from 1976 to 1983; Telushkin worked with him there.
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Dennis Prager soon earned a reputation as a moral critic attacking secularism and narcissism, both of which he said were destroying society; some people called him a Jewish Billy Graham.
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Dennis Prager wrote a syndicated column for newspapers across the country.
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In 1985, Dennis Prager launched his own quarterly journal, Ultimate Issues, which was renamed to The Dennis Prager Perspective in 1996.
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In 1994, Dennis Prager did an hour each weekday, via satellite on WABC, KABC's sister station in New York, before doing his KABC show locally.
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Dennis Prager said he was "ambivalent about television as a medium for deep, intelligent programming" but that the show was "an incredible opportunity to reach a mass audience with my belief system".
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Dennis Prager supported Jimmy Carter in the 1976 US presidential election.
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In 1994, the Anti-Defamation League published a report on antisemitism in the Christian right movement; Dennis Prager, who aligned with the social and political conservatism of the Christian right, attacked the ADL and its report.
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In 1995, Dennis Prager criticized the Illinois Supreme Court decision in the Baby Richard case that removed a child from his adoptive parents.
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In 1996, Dennis Prager testified in Congress in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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In 2006, Dennis Prager criticized Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, for announcing that he would use the Quran for the reenactment of his swearing in ceremony.
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In 2009, Dennis Prager joined other Salem Radio Network hosts to oppose the Affordable Care Act.
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Dennis Prager endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, but said that Trump was his "17th choice out of 17 candidates".
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Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic criticized Dennis Prager for endorsing Trump.
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In 2017, Dennis Prager was invited to be a guest conductor for the volunteer orchestra of Santa Monica, California, as part of a fundraising concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Dennis Prager's brother, Kenneth Prager, is a physician and professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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Dennis Prager's nephew, Joshua Prager, is a former writer for The Wall Street Journal.
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On October 18,2021, Dennis Prager announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous week and had received ivermectin and Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment.
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Dennis Prager has been published in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and Commentary.
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Dennis Prager's weekly syndicated column appears on such online websites as Townhall, National Review Online, Jewish World Review and elsewhere.
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Dennis Prager writes a bi-weekly column for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.