sentences:  Kayserling founded the Swiss Jewish Cultural Society ("Kulturverein der Israeliten in der Schweiz") which campaigned for the civil rights of Jews in the Aargau region (achieved in 1879).In the Aargau, the Jewish communities were given special exemption from a law requiring that animals had to killed by a blow to the head.Proponents of animal rights attacked this exemption for the purposes of schechita.