29 Facts About Dennis Prager

Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer.

Dennis Prager is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show.

Dennis Prager gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics.

Dennis Prager was born in Brooklyn to Hilda and Max Prager, the latter the son of Polish Jewish immigrants.

Dennis Prager attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, where he befriended Joseph Telushkin.

Dennis Prager became a fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and attended there from 1970 to 1972, while he took courses at the University of Leeds.

Dennis Prager holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University.

Dennis Prager became the national spokesman for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.

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.

Dennis Prager ran the Brandeis-Bardin Institute from 1976 to 1983; Telushkin worked with him there.

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.

Dennis Prager wrote a syndicated column for newspapers across the country.

In 1985, Dennis Prager launched his own quarterly journal, Ultimate Issues, which was renamed to The Dennis Prager Perspective in 1996.

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.

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".

Dennis Prager supported Jimmy Carter in the 1976 US presidential election.

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.

In 1995, Dennis Prager criticized the Illinois Supreme Court decision in the Baby Richard case that removed a child from his adoptive parents.

In 1996, Dennis Prager testified in Congress in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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.

In 2009, Dennis Prager joined other Salem Radio Network hosts to oppose the Affordable Care Act.

Dennis Prager endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, but said that Trump was his "17th choice out of 17 candidates".

Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic criticized Dennis Prager for endorsing Trump.

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.

Since then Dennis Prager continues to criticize the lockdowns as unwarranted and destructive to society after findings from a commission set up by Sweden's parliament concluded that the government should have shut venues and taken other tougher measures early in the COVID-19 pandemic, though its no-lockdown strategy was broadly beneficial.

Dennis Prager's brother, Kenneth Prager, is a physician and professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who advocates for vaccines and against hydroxychloroquine.

Dennis Prager's nephew, Joshua Prager, is a former writer for The Wall Street Journal.

In November 2024, Dennis Prager suffered a serious back injury as the result of a fall.

In 2018, Dennis Prager published a commentary on the Book of Exodus; this was followed by another commentary on the Book of Genesis in 2019.