Ma’alla Street Jewish Cemetery, Aden, Yemen

Diarna’s digital preservation of sites and memories may be the only way to ensure untrammeled access to endangered Jewish sites (schools, cemeteries, synagogues, shrines, and other structures) across the Middle East and North Africa.

There is, however, a limited amount of time to document as many as possible of the sites and memories that are still extant, decades after communities have completely disbanded or atrophied, structures have decayed or been destroyed, and political strife has stymied physical preservation efforts. What remains is in danger of being irrevocably lost.

Our team members, inspired by the project’s purpose, give generously of their time and talents, allowing for a most efficient operating budget. The Slingshot Fund’s evaluators, in recognizing us for the second time as amongst the 50 most innovative Jewish projects in North America, praised how Diarna returns “‘a huge impact for each dollar invested.’”

You can help us in important ways:

1) Volunteer as a researcher, interviewer, videographer, technical developer, graphic designer, or translator (Email inquires to internships@heritagemapping.org).

2) Share site photos and memories (Contact us at info@diarna.org).

3) Make a tax-deductible contribution by clicking the PayPal “donate” button (below) or sending a check (payable to Digital Heritage Mapping, Inc., 304 Newbury Street, No. 311, Boston, MA, 02115).

Diarna’s parent, Digital Heritage Mapping, Inc., is registered in good standing with the IRS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Here are some of the ways your contribution helps us document and present sites:

• $36 maps a site
• $100 supports filming the testimony of a Jew indigenous to the Middle East (see Mukhluf Mamman discussing Saba Synagogue in Fez’s Mellah, here)
• $250 supports the publication of one site in Diarna’s Google Earth layer (“Ezekiel’s Tomb“)
• $500 supports the creation of a site tour video on YouTube (tour a village in Tighedouine and Ourzazate’s Mellah)
• $1,000 sponsors a website update (Benchimol Hospital)
• $1,800 sponsors a video in our new Insights video series (No.1: “The Hamadan Shrine to Esther and Mordechai”)
• $2,000 underwrites a three-dimensional digital reconstruction of a site (naming opportunity, see the example of Beirut’s Tripoli’s Dar Bishi Synagogue)

In addition, donate $250 or more and receive your choice of an 11X14 full-color limited edition Diarna photographic print of the following rare Judeo-Moroccan sites (When checking out on PayPal click “Add special instructions…” and note your print selection’s number):

	Print 1: Jewish Cemetery, Ifrane d’Anti-Atlas, Morocco, one of the southernmost Jewish cemeteries in North Africa (Hebrew fragment reads: “The old man died…”)
	Print 2: Hananya Al-Fassi, Jewish guardian of the tomb of Rabbi Shlomo Ben Lhans, Aghbalou, Morocco
	Print 3: Amzrou Mellah, Southern Morocco
	Print 4: Hanan (Etz Haim) Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt
	Print 5: Rabbi Shmuel Abuhatzera Shrine, Erfoud, Morocco
	Print 6: Women caretakers of the Synagogue in Ighil’n'Ogho (Tallouine region), Morocco
	Print 7: Abandoned Synagogue, Amzrou, Morocco

Whatever form your help may take, thank you, in advance, for your support.