“Even when they won, they somehow inexplicably managed to lose,” he says of an outfit he’s supported all his life. Not the Democratic Party, the Boston Red Sox. Losing can teach relience and effort, he asserts, lessons he applies as head of the Anti-Defamation League. A conversation at JCC Manhattan about pursuing social justice in challenging times, with music from Gregorio Urive and Solange Prat.

•  PERSON: Bernhard Greenblatt
•  PLACE: Fenway Park
•  THING: this photograph
•  RANDY’S PERSON: Titus Oates