‘kibutz galuyot’ -- in Cancun?

“It's a place that is what we call the ‘kibutz galuyot’ [ingathering of the exiles], you gather the masses of Jews from every place around the world and it's something exceptional to be able to be seated around the table,” he tells Israel National News.

What place is the Rabbi being quoted, and I will leave out the name (maybe I shouldn't even link to the article?), speaking about?  

Did you guess Cancun, Mexico?  

Yes, he was probably just borrowing the phrase, but even to borrow the phrase ‘kibutz galuyot’ and use it in the context of speaking about Cancun says something about our attitudes.

I don't pretend to be a prophet, but it seems to me to be simple midah k'neged midah that if we want Israel to be a special place where "einei Hashem Elokecha bah," where there are not strikes a protests and terrorist attacks and problems every other day, then maybe we need to think a little more about what "kibutz galuyot" means and where we want to be on Y"T, surrounded by other Jews from all corners of the world.  

"L'shanah ha'ba'ah" in Cancun?  I think not.   

Instead of a Pesach where "the guard is down, people are on vacation, nobody’s wearing their ties and suits, and therefore people are more receptive to expressing their Jewishness," maybe we should strive for a Pesach where we wear our ties and suits l'kavod Y"T, where we don't have to try to sneak in some Jewishness when people's guard is down because they are relaxing, but aderaba, the Jewishness of the chag is front and center.

How exactly that can happen when every Jewish newspaper and periodical has ads selling us on Pesach in Cancun and other exotic places, where even community Rabbis go off to join their flocks in the resorts, where staying home and making Pesach has become the exception rather than the norm, I have no idea.