Dennis Prager
Dennis Mark Prager (/ˈpreɪɡər/; born August 2, 1948)[1] is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which primarily creates five-minute videos from an American conservative perspective, among other content.
Dennis Prager
August 2, 1948
- Radio host
- Political commentator
- Founder of PragerU
- Author
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Janice Adelstein(m. 1981; div. 1986)
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Francine Stone(m. 1988; div. 2005)
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Susan Reed(m. 2008)
- Kenneth Prager (brother)
- Joshua Prager (nephew)
His initial political work starting in 1969 concerned Refuseniks, the Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate.[2] He gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics.
Early life and education[edit]
Dennis Prager was born in Brooklyn to Hilda (née Friedfeld; 1919–2009) and Max Prager (1918–2014), the latter the son of Polish Jewish immigrants.[3] Prager and his brother Kenneth Prager,[4] were raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish home. He attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, where he befriended Joseph Telushkin.
He went to Brooklyn College and majored in history and Middle Eastern Studies. Over the next few years he took courses at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and at the University of Leeds; he then left academia without finishing a graduate degree. After he left graduate school, Prager left Modern Orthodoxy but maintained many traditional Jewish practices; he remains religious.[1] Prager holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University.[5]
Personal life[edit]
Prager speaks English, French, Russian and Hebrew.[55] His brother, Kenneth Prager, is a physician and professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who advocates for vaccines and against hydroxychloroquine.[4][56] His nephew, Joshua Prager, is a former writer for The Wall Street Journal.[57]
In 2018, Prager published a commentary on the Book of Exodus; this was followed by another commentary on the Book of Genesis in 2019. Both were published by the Salem Media Group.[9]