Tens of thousands from every major Hasidic sect crowded the streets of Borough Park, Brooklyn, for Rabbi Portugal’s funeral on April 2. Rabbi Portugal, the grand rabbi of the tiny Skulen Hasidic sect, had died the day before at age 95, in Baltimore. He may have been the last of the Hasidic grand rabbis who had survived the ordeals of the Holocaust and the Iron Curtain. He gained a reputation of compassion, a spare life, and doing God’s work.                                                                                                        Getty Images