PERSON: Dennis Prager

Co-Founder

Dennis Mark Prager (/ˈpreɪɡər/; born August 2, 1948) 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.

His initial political work starting in 1969 concerned Refuseniks, the Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate. He gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics.

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. Prager and his brother, Kenneth Prager, were raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish home. He attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, where he befriended Joseph Telushkin.

Prager attended Brooklyn College, where he double majored in anthropology and history, and received a B.A. in 1970. He became a fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and attended there from 1970-1972, while he also took courses at the University of Leeds. After he left graduate school, Prager left Modern Orthodoxy but maintained many traditional Jewish practices; he remains religious. Prager holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University.

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