Welcome to the Bronx News Roundup. These are the Bronx stories we’re following today.

Weather: Chance of light sprinkling this afternoon, cloudy, high in the low 50s. Tomorrow, a slight chance of rain/snow, then a high in the low 50s again.

On the front page of today’s New York Times, there’s an obituary for Rabbi Hershel Schacter, who spent much of his life as the head of the Mosholu Jewish Center, a synagogue on Hull Avenue in Norwood that closed in 1999.  Schacter was considered a national Jewish leader and, as a chaplain during World War II, famously brought news of freedom to the Jews liberated at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945.

For the first time, parents and students will help train school safety agents (the civilian members of the NYPD in charge of policing public school campuses). This development was born out of a series of meetings that started last fall between the NYPD, Department of Education and school community members after new data showed a shockingly high number of arrests (mostly of minority students and students in the Bronx) in public schools, DNAinfo reports.

A 15-year-old, Bronx student attending the Women’s Academy of Excellence has been a victim of constant social media bullying, which has led her to miss two months of school, according to the Daily News.

The teen was a victim in two school cafeteria beatings in November. Reports state the student’s mother’s request for transfer was delayed because the above incidents were left unreported.  The victim was granted a transfer to DeWitt Clinton High School that has left the teen’s mother, Michelle Benjamin, “furious”. Read the full story here.

Plans to reopen the Bronx’s High Bridge exemplify the growing success of the once crime and drug plagued borough. The New York Times reports that once the landmark bridge reopens,  Bronxites will be able to walk right into Upper Manhattan. The bridge has been closed for 4o years. Click here for the full  story.

The Daily News takes a look at the new Bronx Beer Hall on Arthur Avenue.