BEIJING (JTA) -- Dror Poleg, an Israeli who has lived in Beijing for three years, says being Jewish is "easier in China than in Israel."

"In Israel there is lots of politics, what school you go to, what yarmulke you wear," Poleg says. "Here you can just be you."

Beijing has had an organized Jewish community since China's open-door policy of the late 1970s. The city's Chaba...