I wasn’t sure if this was anti-humra medicine, or anti-hametz (hamira) medicine. Although it is a long way until Purim, I wonder what some side effects might be.

1. Maybe this really was a destination wedding? People came from all over the world to stay in the same hotel, there was lots of sun, people played, or pretended, to play tennis. It sounds like one to me.
2. Who gets all of the frequent flyer miles? That is probably one of the biggest downers of using an alias.
3. Seeing that there were a large number of young men and women who very well may have been Jewish, could this have been a trial run by a new competitor for Birthright?
4. How about a Srugim-like show about young men and women who work in the Mossad. Word on the street is that they are making an Israeli-version of the Office, well, do I have an office for you.

Update: This article from the London Times makes a nice Purim connection.

On the official website of Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, is the biblical verse from Prophets, 11:14 — “where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety”. Unfortunately, so many of its “counsellors” seem to have been caught on CCTV, wearing wigs and other disguises, that it was as if an early Purim carnival was being held in Dubai’s hotels and airports.

Update II: They have way more friends than I do.

Update: See also this post from Rav Tzair.

And know that in a small settlement where there is no man who knows how to read the megillah properly, and there is a woman that knows how to read the megillah, of course she is able to read the megillah with its cantillations for them, and there is no reason to doubt this.

Hazon Ovadiah on Purim was published in 2003 and I now take back having said that he was never explicit about this as a practical alternative before.

Update: See this nice overview of the question by R. Eliezer Melamed (Hebrew). This is from last year and he refers to the above quoted source from Hazon Ovadiah.