Anthony J. Sciolino
Anthony J. Sciolino is a retired Monroe County (New York) Family Court judge, a former member of the Rochester City Council, a graduate of Columbia College and Cornell Law School. He is also an ordained Roman Catholic permanent deacon of the Diocese of Rochester, NY, with a master’s degree in theology from St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry.
He and his wife Gloria live in the Rochester New York suburb of Pittsford, where in addition to serving in jail chaplaincy, he continues to work as an instructor in an interfaith adult study program entitled, The Two Thousand Year Road to the Holocaust: An Interfaith Project of the Greater Rochester Community.
His book, The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences, How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism, A Judge’s Verdict, was awarded the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award, the Silver Medal in World History.
Judge Sciolino is a member of the Authors’ Network of the Jewish Book Council.