Dennis Prager

At 75 years old, Dennis Prager has this physical status:

Dennis Mark Prager (born August 2, 1948) is an American conservative radio talk show host and author.

He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family and his first political activity worried Soviet Jews who were unwilling to immigrate.

He began giving more and more political feedback.

His views are in accordance with societal conservatism.

PragerU, an American non-profit group that produces videos on a conservative viewpoint, has been founded.

Early life and education

Dennis Prager was born in Brooklyn to Hilda Prager (née Friedfeld, 1919–2009) and her partner, Max Prager (1918–2014). Prager and his sibling Kenneth Prager were raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish household. Joseph Telushkin befriended him at the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York. He went to Brooklyn College and graduated with a major in history and Middle Eastern Studies. He took classes at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the University of Leeds over the next two years; he then left academia without having completed a graduate degree. Prager left Modern Orthodoxy but maintained many traditional Jewish practices after leaving graduate school; he remained religious. Prager is a Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University.

Personal life

Prager is a native of England, French, Russian, and Hebrew. Kenneth Prager, his brother, is a medical professor and researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Joshua Prager, Joshua Prager's uncle, is a Wall Street Journal writer.

Prager revealed that he had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous week and had received ivermectin and Regeneron's monoclonal antibody therapy on October 18, 2021. He said he had been taking zinc prophylactically from the start, and that "innate immunity" from intentionally contracting COVID-19 was what he had "longed for the entire time."

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Career

When he was attending in England, he was sent by a Jewish organization to visit the Soviet Union in 1969 to interview Jews about their lives there. When he returned from holidays last year, he was in high demand as a speaker on Soviet Jews' persecution; he earned enough from lectures to travel; and visited more than 60 countries. He was the national spokesman for the Soviet Jewry in the Student Struggle.

Prager's career began with an increasing tendency among American Jews, some of whom had been steadfastly liberal, to move toward the center and others to the right, owing in large part to the influx of Jews from the Soviet Union. Prager and Telushkin published an introduction to Judaism in 1975: The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, which became a bestseller. Among the questions addressed in the text were: how does Judaism differ from Christianity, can one question God's existence while still being a good Jew, and how can you handle unethical but religious Jews?

Prager worked with the Brandeis-Bardin Institute from 1976 to 1983; Telushkin worked with him. It was Prager's first salaried job. He emerged as a moral critic attacking secularism and narcissism, both of which he claimed were destroying society; still, some people referred to him as a Jewish Billy Graham.

KABC (AM) in Los Angeles, 1982, recruited Prager to host Religion on the Line, the city's top-rated religious talk show, which grew to a week-day talk show. Why the Jews? He and Telushkin wrote another book in 1983: Why the Jews? Antisemitism has a reason.

According to a commentary in Commentary, the book depicts anti-Semitism as a "sinister form of flattery"; the authors argue that the fear of Jews embracing the belief that they are God's chosen people led to a lack of a moral voice in the world. Jews are depicted in the book as both a people (stateless for a long time) and followers of a faith, which affirms that Judaism's identity is crucial to Judaism; the book argues that demands for Jews to culturally assimilate as well as opposition to Zionism are both aspects of antisemitism. According to the book, secular Jews are people who have lost their way and who have fallen into the trap of using Judaism's mission to rebuild the world in ways that tend to be authoritarian, totalitarian, and destructive.

He also wrote a syndicated column for newspapers around the country. Prager founded Ultimate Issues, a quarterly journal that was renamed to The Prager Perspective in 1996.

He divorced and underwent a year of therapy, which is a sign of his 1999 book Happiness is a Serious Discipline. He wrote "Judaism, Homosexuality, and Civilization" in 1990, which argued against normalizing homosexuality in the Jewish community and placed sexual offences on a continuum from premarital sex, celibacy, homosexuality, homosexuality, cosmetic perfection, homosexuality, mature, and incest; in fact, he argued that confining sex to heterosexual marriage desexualized faith, which was a major accomplishment of ancient Jewish faith in s

He had been remarried by 1992. He was still on "goodness" and "a Jewish St. George battling the forces of secularity on behalf of simple "goodness"; with some exceptions; he advocated for a woman's religious right to abortion (although he said it was often immoral), and acknowledged and justified sex between non-married consenting males and women. He became involved with the Stephen S. Wise Temple in 1992 and spoke at it, and he also hosted a weeknight talk show on KABC.

Prager appeared on WABC, KABC's sister station in New York's sister station in New York, for an hour each weekday before doing his KABC show locally in 1994.

Multimedia Entertainment syndicated a television show starring Prager during the 1994-1995 television season. Prager said he was "ambivalent about television as a platform for deep, intelligent programming," but that the program was "an amazing opportunity to reach a mass audience with my belief system." In 1995, he brought the studio audience on stage with him so they could interact more closely with him.

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