The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in Brooklyn Tuesday for the funeral of a popular rabbi who survived the Holocaust and despised the internet. Huge crowds were pictured in Borough Park for the ...

Large crowds gathered in Monsey Tuesday to mourn Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, the rebbe of the Skulen Hasidic dynasty in Brooklyn, who died on Monday. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at ...

The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisrael Avraham Portugal, known as the "Elder of the Admorim," passed away Monday in the United States. He was 96. Over the past few months he has been in and out of the ...

Today is the yahrzeit of the Sekulener Rebbe zts"l. When a man, by his actions, by his wisdom and insight shows us his holiness and erudition, we should believe our eyes and hearts and be grateful to ...

One of the final remnants of Torah sanctity in eastern Europe to survive World War II and put down roots in the fresh potential of America, the 95-year-old Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom ...