Funeral of the Skulener Rebbe

Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, Revered Orthodox Rabbi, Died on April 1, 2019 at the age of 95. Yisroel Avrohom Portugal was the grand rabbi of the tiny Skulen Hasidic sect in Borough Park, New York. On April 2, 2019 tens of thousands of hasidic men, women and children from every major sect filled the streets of Bororough Park to attend his funeral. Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal may have been the last of the Hasidic grand rabbis who survived the ordeals of both the Holocaust and the Iron Curtain and rebuilt their communities in New York and Israel.