Yair wins again!

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “New York Sings Yiddish!” was one of those idyllic New York evenings, when you’re sitting outside in Central Park, just glorying in the physical beauty around you, being surrounded by 4,000 people singing along, at various skill levels, with the amazing performers onstage.

So when Cantor Magda Fishman, of B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, who is an amazing, thrilling, charismatic performer, who not only sings but also — and for real — plays trumpet, said that she’d sing Chiribim with her son, who was maybe 9, it was like, yeah, sure, that’ll be cute. Why not?

And then her son, Yair Keydar, came on, and wow! He was cute and looked entirely his age (there were huge screens up, so you could see) and he also had massive talent and charm, and it seemed that all of the 4,000 or so people there fell simultaneously and deeply in love.

Yair’s sung professionally since — as well as being a regular kid with a regular life — and now he’s competing in the junior division on Netflix’s newly revived Star Search. He won the first competition last week, singing “Over the Rainbow”; this week, he won with Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing.”

This might be the first time you hear Yair’s name, but it’s not likely to be the last.