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Prayers Pour In For Dennis Prager After Latest Update Post-Fall

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Conservative radio host Dennis Prager is in serious condition following a sudden fall that left him with a back injury. Since taking a fall on Tuesday, the situation has grown severe, according to a statement released by his longtime AM station.

Prayers for Prager, 76, went out over X on Thursday by Megyn Kelly, Eric Metaxas, and other conservative media figures after AM 560 The Answer wrote followers announcing that the host has been hospitalized and undergoing treatment since Tuesday. PragerU, an online conservative platform founded by Prager in 2009, explained that he suffered a “serious back injury” during the fall in Los Angeles. He remains hospitalized in the city while Bob Frantz and Carl Jackson fill in at “The Dennis Prager Show” for the remainder of the week.

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“On Tuesday morning, PragerU founder and our dear friend, Dennis Prager, suffered a serious back injury following a fall. He’s resting in a local Los Angeles hospital as doctors assess treatment options. We will keep you informed of his condition. In the meantime, Dennis welcomes the healing power of your prayers,” PragerU wrote on X.

The news sparked an outpouring of sympathy by Prager’s peers. “Prayers up for Dennis Prager,” Kelly, a fellow talk show host, wrote in response. Metaxas, a Christian podcaster and host of “The Eric Metaxas Show,” asked his listeners to bless Prager. “One of my very dearest and most beloved friends — the national treasure that is Dennis Prager — desperately needs our prayers. PLEASE lift him up before the throne of God’s grace today — and believe God for a miracle,” he said, quote-posting PragerU’s announcement.

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Prager, a New York native and practicing Jew, got his start in media by appealing to Jewish audiences who drifted to the right during the height of the Soviet Union. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a pervasive atmosphere of antisemitism in communist governments led scores of Jewish residents to flee to the U.S. where they found comfort in Prager’s writings for a lay audience seeking to understand his people. “The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism,” released in 1981, quickly became a bestseller about the burgeoning network of Jewish refugees seeking refuge in the U.S.

Ventures by Prager into higher education and the entertainment industry quickly drew comparisons to Billy Graham, the Evangelical televangelist who helped give rise to the religious right under the Reagan administration. His first show, “Religion on the Line,” premiered in 1982 on Los Angeles AM station KABC and amassed top ratings for its critiques of both antisemitism and secularism creeping into public discourse across the country. He made the defense of traditional marriage a cornerstone of his advocacy, arguing against homosexual tolerance in Jewish communities and in 1996 testified before Congress in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act. His prescient observation on antisemitism within the Democratic Party foresaw the modern-day anti-Zionist movement of the left. “American Jews are ignorant regarding the anti Israel aspects of the current Democrat Party,” he wrote shortly before the 1996 presidential election.

Since 1999, Prager has hosted his nationally syndicated talk show alongside some of yesteryear’s biggest names in conservative radio from Rush Limbaugh to Mark Levin and Michael Savage. He is but one of just a few from his generation who remain active on the air; Limbaugh passed away from cancer in 2021 while Savage, 82, retired from broadcasting that same year.

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