WHEN Adidas cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, due to his anti-Semitic comments, it was left with more than a billion dollars' worth of high-end Yeezy sneakers. Now, Jewish Americans are evaluating the German company's plan to give some of the proceeds from the sneakers' sale to groups engaged in fighting anti-Semitism.

Like other Jewish civic leaders contacted by The Associated Press (AP), Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson said he wasn't planning to buy a pair of Yeezys himself, but he also doesn't see the value of wasting the labor and material that went into making them.