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Eric Berger

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Love music with a funky bass line but never been able to stick to a beat. That lame line means I regularly write about religion, food, sports, politics, and arts and culture, among other topics.

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Enrollment Down, Mizzou Draws Up a New Play

Enrollment Down, Mizzou Draws Up a New Play

On the morning of the Mizzou football game against South Carolina, Sharon Cloud walks out of her room in the …

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A Refuge for Korean War Brides, in Rural Missouri

A Refuge for Korean War Brides, in Rural Missouri

Methodist pastor Minji Stark makes breakfast and prays each morning with five Korean women who live at a home…

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How St. Louis Will Help Determine the Future of the Monarch Butterfly

How St. Louis Will Help Determine the Future of the Monarch Butterfly

Fifth-grade students stand around plastic containers at The College School of Webster Groves, captivated by a…

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A family's leap of faith

A family's leap of faith

When Ira Somers descended from the El Al plane with his wife and five kids and more than 200 other new immigr…

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Gov. Greitens and tikkun olam

Gov. Greitens and tikkun olam

When Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens spoke at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City after gravestones wer…

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His father installed printing presses. He dismantles them.

His father installed printing presses. He dismantles them.

When Joel Birket was a child, his family moved to new cities for a year at a time so his father, William, cou…

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Twenty years in, this Jewish prize has turbocharged the work of a few remarkable humanitarians

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By Eric Berger
| St. Louis Jewish Light Verified
(JTA) — NEW YORK — When Sasha Chanoff received the $100,000 Charles Bronfman Prize in 2010 for his work helping refugees worldwide find safe haven, jobs and social stability, he used the occasion of the awards ceremony in New York to introduce a family that his organization had helped reunite. The emotional event sparked a turning point for the organization, RefugePoint, which to date has helped over 100,000 refugees.
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Healthcare IT Spending: Innovation, Integration, and AI

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By Eric Berger, Caitlin Dowling, Aaron Feinberg, Rebecca Hammond
| Bain & Company
While healthcare providers and payers experienced the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath differently from a financial perspective, both sectors confronted operational disruption and labor challenges. Providers, given the limited options to meet community care needs during the crisis, turned to technology, spurring critical IT projects and transformation at a pace previously thought unfeasible.
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St. Louis' Crash Apparatus Shows the Sickness of Car Dominance

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By Christian Frommelt, Eric Berger
| Riverfront Times
We are inured to the violence of our car-centric transportation system. Crashes are just part of the deal, right? As drivers we accept the inconvenience of a lane closure, perhaps the fleeting gratitude that we weren't involved this time, and we move on. As long as it wasn't me. We hurry to our engagements, and we look away.
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