German Chancellor Olaf Scholz highlighted the importance of Jewish life in Germany during a visit on Thursday to a newly inaugurated synagogue in his constituency just outside of Berlin. Scholz described the synagogue in Potsdam, which opened several weeks ago, as a symbolically important step for Germany. It is a “touching moment for me to see that after the terrible history of fascism and National Socialism with the destruction of Jewish life in Germany and throughout Europe” to see that Jewish life is finding a place again and places for it exist, Scholz said. “That is a sign that gives us …