Our Staff

Kitty Daniels
Administrative Assistant

Kitty grew up on a small farm in northwest Ohio and graduated from Bowling Green State University with an B.S. in Elementary Education.  Kitty taught school for several years and dabbled in other jobs before working as an administrative assistant in various churches and has been doing this work for over 20 years.

Kitty has a son, Philip, and he has two sons: Kaleb and Jonah.  Her daughter, Sarah, has 3 children: Sebastian, Elijah and Abigail.  

She loves jigsaw puzzles, a good book, the beach and mountains and most especially Scotland!

Phone-864.292.1782 

Kym Klapperich
Director of Education TOI Religious School

Kym has been Director of Education at the Temple of Israel since 2011 and a Temple of Israel member since 2007.  She has worked in the field of education for over 20 years as a teacher, curriculum coordinator and director.  She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received her Masters Degree in Education from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.  Kym grew up with a strong background in Reform Judaism.  She studied and was a Bat Mitzvah at a Reform congregation in the Chicago suburbs, spent her summers going to OSRUI URJ Camp on Oconomowoc, Wisconsin and spent a NFTY Summer in Israel as a teenager.  After graduating from college, Kym spent a year as an OTZMA volunteer in Israel and worked as a NFTY tour guide in Israel. 

Kym has been living in the Upstate since 1997 with her husband, Mark, and her two children, Jasmine and Alex.  She loves world travel, working with horses, and spending time in the mountains and at the beach with her family.  She also stays busy at home with the family’s two dogs, cat, horse, and pet corn snake.
Phone-864.292.1782 Ext. 101